Abstract:
The object of the present invention is a process for producing pure guarseed flour which produces a transparent and highly viscous solution when dissolved in water. Despite extensive purification, the process provides good yields of pure guarseed flour. The process comprises acid treatment of the initial material, washing the acid-treated split with water and/or neutralisation with an aqueous alkaline solution, treatment with an aqueous alkaline solution, washing with water and dewatering using an aqueous alcohol solution. Transparent, highly viscous solutions of pure guarseed flour obtained by this process are primarily used in the food industry.
Abstract:
Methods and systems for preparing agricultural residue or other agricultural feedstock for use as a pulp. The method includes providing non-wood agricultural residue (e.g., corn stover) or other agricultural feedstock that includes agricultural fibers, chemically pulping the agricultural fibers in a preliminary alkaline chemical pulping process at a low consistency and at a low temperature to produce partially pulped agricultural fibers, such step including separating lignin and hemicellulose from the partially pulped agricultural fibers, introducing the partially pulped agricultural fibers into a first reactor, wherein the first reactor operates at a low temperature of less than 100°C (e.g., 65°C), introducing the agricultural fibers from the first reactor into a second reactor, where the second reactor operates at a low temperature, of less than 100°C (e.g., 94-96°C), the second reactor operating at a higher temperature than the first reactor, to produce pulped agricultural fibers.
Abstract:
A method for preparing esterified cellulose and/or hemicellulose is disclosed. The method may comprise mixing an anhydride mixture and cellulose and/or hemicellulose, thereby obtaining an esterification mixture, such that the anhydride mixture esterifies the cellulose and/or hemicellulose at least partially, thereby forming the esterified cellulose and/or hemicellulose; and wherein the anhydride mixture is obtainable or obtained by reacting a fatty acid with a short-chain acid anhydride in the presence of an acid catalyst, such that an initial anhydride mixture is obtained, wherein the initial anhydride mixture comprises a mixed anhydride having a fatty acyl group and a short-chain acyl group, a portion of the short-chain acid anhydride, and a short-chain acid and optionally a fatty acid anhydride having two fatty acyl groups; and removing the short-chain acid, the short-chain acid anhydride and optionally water and/or impurities present in the initial anhydride mixture at least partially from the initial anhydride mixture, thereby obtaining the anhydride mixture.
Abstract:
In some variations, a process for preparing a biomass feedstock for conversion to a sugar, a biofuel, a biochemical, or a biomaterial, comprises: providing a biomass feedstock containing cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin; optionally, introducing the biomass feedstock and a first vapor stream to a biomass-heating unit, thereby generating a heated biomass stream; introducing the biomass feedstock and a first liquid stream to a liquid-addition unit, thereby generating a wet biomass stream, wherein the first liquid stream contains a pretreatment chemical; introducing the wet biomass stream to a mechanical conveyor operated to physically remove liquid from the wet biomass stream, thereby generating an excess-liquid stream comprising the pretreatment chemical and a solid discharge stream comprising the biomass feedstock and the pretreatment chemical; recycling at least a portion of the excess-liquid stream to the first liquid stream; and recovering or further processing the solid discharge stream. Many variations are disclosed.
Abstract:
Process for the treatment of lignocellulosic biomasses with a process solvent selected from a eutectic solvent consisting of a hydrogen bond acceptor and of a hydrogen bond donor, an ionic liquid and a mixture of said eutectic solvent and said ionic liquid, said process comprising the following steps: A. mixing of the biomass with the process solvent and possibly separation of insoluble cellulose residues and/or inorganic material; B. treatment of the process solvent solution with water and lignin separation; C. separation of the hemicellulose from the mixture of process solvent and possibly water, the step C of hemicellulose separation is carried out by adding an organic solvent soluble in the solvent and in water, thus allowing the precipitation of the hemicellulose and its subsequent separation with conventional techniques from the liquid phase comprising process solvent, organic solvent and possibly water.
Abstract:
Provided herein are purified hemicellulose compositions, sweetener compositions including purified hemicellulose compositions, as well as methods for making the same. Also provided are uses of the compositions.
Abstract:
Multi-extraction methods for preparing hemicellulose compositions are provided. Depressant compositions comprising hemicellulose compositions are also provided herein. Also disclosed are processes for enriching a desired mineral from an ore comprising the desired mineral, wherein the process comprises carrying out a flotation process in the presence of one or more collecting agents and a depressant composition comprising hemicellulose.
Abstract:
The invention provides oligosaccharide compositions, wherein arabinoxylan is present in said composition in amounts of 40-70% (w/w) of dry solid con-tent (DS) and the oligosaccharides have a dispersity (D) of 10-17. The oligosaccharide compositions are useful as bulking agents and for increasing the mouthfeel of a food product.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a composition comprising Low Molecular Weight –Arabinoxylan (LMW-AX) with branched oligosaccharides, preferably at least one branched oligosaccharides is positioned at or adjacent to a reducing end of the LMW-AX backbone. The present invention also relates to the production and use thereof. The present invention further relates to acomposition comprising Low Molecular Weight –Arabinoxylan (LMW-AX) with oligosaccharides, where a fraction of the Araf units have been removed to improve the yield of oligosaccharides.