Pretreatment of energy crops with sodium hydroxide and cellulolytic enzymes to increase biogas production

This work presents the influence of alkali pretreatment on the enzymatic hydrolysis and efficiency of anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic biomass pretreated both in a one- (chemical or enzymatic) and two-step (chemical and enzymatic) process. In this study two species of energy crops were used Miscanthus giganteus and Sida hermaphrodita. The aim of this work was to compare biogas production and methane yield during fermentation of pretreated...