Inorganic salts effect on wheat straw during steam explosion treatment

Wheat straw is an abundant low cost byproduct. Its use is usually limited in litter and cattle feed. In order to better valorize this lignocellulosic biomass in high added value products, a material preliminary fraction should be done.
In this study, a steam explosion pretreatment was applied at different pressure 15 and 20 bar with a residence time of 2 min using different solvents (distilled water and salt water 35g/l NaCl).
The objective is to investigate the effect of the operating parameters and salts on the extraction yield of different molecules and their degradation products. The results shows that sodium chloride enhanced the hemicellulose and cellulose removal compared to distilled water.