Pretreatment and biorefining

Intervention fields

  • Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass (physical/mecanical, chemical, thermal, biological) for various applications
  • Processes for fractionating biomass into its various components at laboratory and pilot scale
  • Biomass characterization

Expertise

  • Development of a pretreatment process adapted to a specific biomass
  • Adaptation of paper equipments for biomass fractionation
  • Size reduction, grinding and refining
  • Impregnation
  • Acid/alkaline hydrolysis
  • Enzymatic hydrolysis
  • Steam explosion
  • Cooking with hot water

Our equipment

  • Grinders and refiners, laboratory and pilot scale
  • Laboratory device for accelerated solvent extraction (ASE)
  • Digesters M/K 6 L and 20 L
  • Pressurized reactors 100 ml, 600 ml, 20 L, 200 L and 700 L
  • Pilot plant
    • Plug feeders 2 :1 and 4 :1
    • Metso refining system
    • Atmospheric impregnation system
    • Steam cracker 600 cm3
    • Screw press 150-400 L/min
    • Twin screw extruder Entek E-max 27 mm
    • High consistency pulper 4,2 m3•
  • Analysis devices
    • Elemental analyzer (CHNS)
    • Chlorine analyzer
    • Thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA)
    • Specific surface analyzer (BET)
    • Ion chromatograph (IC)
    • Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry device (GC-MS)
    • Infrared analyzer (FTIR)

Contact

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