Wheat bran biorefinery. Fractionation, characterization and catalytic dehydration

LUCAS RETAMAR; FEDERICO PIOVANO; ALICIA BOIX; SOLEDAD ASPROMONTE

Santa Fe

Workshop; French-Argentinean Workshop on Heterogeneous Catalysts; 2023

Biorefineries emerge as a new technological system that allows the use of renewable raw materials, such as biomass, in order to obtain high value-added products [1]. This work proposes the revaluation of a by-product of agricultural production such as wheat bran (WB) to obtain compounds of commercial interest, like furans (HMF and furfural) and lactic acid (LA). This process involves WB fractionation, characterization of both, raw material (WB) and different fractions obtained, and the catalytic evaluation in polysaccharides dehydration.