Print Email Facebook Twitter Process for the treatment of lignocellulosic biomass Title Process for the treatment of lignocellulosic biomass Author De Jong, W. Tavares Cardoso, M.A. Van Spronsen, J. Witkamp, G.J. Faculty Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering Department Process and Energy Date 2011-12-01 Abstract The invention is directed to a process for the treatment of lignocellulosic biomass to recover one or more components or derivatives of components thereof, said process comprising treating said biomass at a temperature of at least 75 DEG C in a mixture of an ionic liquid and an organic acid, thereby producing a treatment mixture containing cellulose and wherein cellulose is precipitated from the said treatment mixture with an organic alcohol or water, and optionally separated therefrom. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:53b50971-b326-4a34-9d00-ed228b7b9f9b Publisher European Patent Office Source http://worldwide.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/biblio?CC=WO&NR=2011149341A1&KC=A1&FT=D&ND=7&date=20111201&DB=EPODOC&locale=en_EP Source WO 2011149341 (A1) Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type patent Rights (c) 2011 The Author(s) Files PDF WO2011149341A1.pdf 896.07 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:53b50971-b326-4a34-9d00-ed228b7b9f9b/datastream/OBJ/view