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ArticlePloS one2017

Chemometric modeling of thermogravimetric data for the compositional analysis of forest biomass.

Gifty E Acquah, Brian K Via, Oladiran O Fasina, Sushil Adhikari, Nedret Billor, Lori G Eckhardt

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Article in PloS one, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Gifty E AcquahForest Products Development Center, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4269-0903
Brian K ViaForest Products Development Center, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America.
Oladiran O FasinaCenter for Bioenergy and Bioproducts, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America.
Sushil AdhikariCenter for Bioenergy and Bioproducts, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America.
Nedret BillorDepartment of Mathematics and Statistics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America.
Lori G EckhardtForest Health Dynamics Laboratory, School of Forestry and Wildlife Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, United States of America.

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Abstract

The objective of this study was to investigated the use of chemometric modeling of thermogravimetric (TG) data as an alternative approach to estimate the chemical and proximate (i.e. volatile matter, fixed carbon and ash contents) composition of lignocellulosic biomass. Since these properties affect the conversion pathway, processing costs, yield and / or quality of products, a capability to rapidly determine these for biomass feedstock entering the process stream will be useful in the success and efficiency of bioconversion technologies. The 38-minute long methodology developed in this study enabled the simultaneous prediction of both the chemical and proximate properties of forest-derived biomass from the same TG data. Conventionally, two separate experiments had to be conducted to obtain such information. In addition, the chemometric models constructed with normalized TG data outperformed models developed via the traditional deconvolution of TG data. PLS and PCR models were especially robust in predicting the volatile matter (R2-0.92; RPD- 3.58) and lignin (R2-0.82; RPD- 2.40) contents of the biomass. The application of chemometrics to TG data also made it possible to predict some monomeric sugars in this study. Elucidation of PC loadings obtained from chemometric models also provided some insights into the thermal decomposition behavior of the chemical constituents of lignocellulosic biomass. For instance, similar loadings were noted for volatile matter and cellulose, and for fixed carbon and lignin. The findings indicate that common latent variables are shared between these chemical and thermal reactivity properties. Results from this study buttresses literature that have reported that the less thermally stable polysaccharides are responsible for the yield of volatiles whereas the more recalcitrant lignin with its higher percentage of elementary carbon contributes to the yield of fixed carbon.

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BiomassForestsThermogravimetryKineticsLigninLigninlignocellulose

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