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Record W4402578161 · doi:10.3390/macromol4030039

Study of Purified Cellulosic Pulp and Lignin Produced by Wheat Straw Biorefinery

2024· article· en· W4402578161 on OpenAlex
Kalvin Durand, Rodrigue Daassi, Denis Rodrigue, Tatjana Stevanović

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Bibliographic record

VenueMacromol—A Journal of Macromolecular Research · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicLignin and Wood Chemistry
Canadian institutionsBiopterreUniversité Laval
Fundersnot available
KeywordsCellulosic ethanolBiorefineryStrawPulp (tooth)LigninPulp and paper industryCelluloseDissolving pulpChemistryEnvironmental scienceRaw materialEngineeringOrganic chemistryDentistryMedicine

Abstract

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With the world population rising, wheat straw production is expected to reach 687–740 million tons per year by 2050. Its frequent application as a fuel source leads to air, water, and soil pollution. Limited literature exists on methods for separating components of residual wheat straw. Optimal conditions for organosolv pulping of hydrolyzed wheat straw include 3% FeCl3·6H2O as a catalyst, a biomass-to-solvent ratio of 1:15 (m/v), and 50% ethanol:water as cooking liquor at 200 °C for 30 min. Desilication conditions involve extraction with 7.5% Na2CO3 at a biomass-to-solvent ratio of 1:20 (m/v) treated at 115 °C for 60 min. Lignin from hydrolyzed wheat straw showed similar properties to organosolv lignin from untreated straw, with minimal lignin alteration during hydrolysis. Hydrolysis significantly degraded cellulose. A 41% lignin recovery rate with 95% purity was achieved from pre-extracted hydrolyzed straw. Recovered cellulose after silica removal had 2% ash and 87% purity. The innovation of this process lies in the development of a comprehensive, sustainable, efficient, and economically viable biorefinery process that efficiently separates key components of wheat straw, i.e., xylose, lignin, cellulose, and silica, while addressing environmental pollution associated with its traditional use as fuel.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.023
Threshold uncertainty score0.984

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.026
GPT teacher head0.303
Teacher spread0.277 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it