LSIWC – Pretreatment technologies

The steam explosion pretreatment combines physico-mechanical and chemical processing. The LSIWC employes laboratory-scale SE unit (Figure 3) comprising steam generator, reactor of 45 bar maximum pressure and treatment time from seconds to 15 min, and receiver of the exploded biomass. The biomass after SE pretreatment is used to produce self-binding boards and heat insulation materials.

Facility at the LSIWC for technological studies of biomass pretreatment kinetics by continuous steam flow (110-180 °C) is shown in Figure 4.