GREEN PROCESS TO HYDROLYZE CARBOHYDRATES FROM TOBACCO BIOMASS USING SUBCRITICAL WATER

• Main Authors: KUMAR SANDEEP, BOBE IULIAN, MOSCOSO JOSE LUIS GARCIA, MAJERANOWSKI PETER
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 13.11.2014
• Subjects: ANIMAL AND VEGETABLE OILS, FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES AND WAXES; CANDLES; CHEMISTRY; CIGARETTES; CIGARS; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON; DERIVATIVES OF NATURAL MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; DETERGENTS; ESSENTIAL OILS; FATTY ACIDS THEREFROM; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; HUMAN NECESSITIES; MANUFACTURE OR PREPARATION OF TOBACCO FOR SMOKING ORCHEWING; METALLURGY; ORGANIC CHEMISTRY; ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; PERFUMES; PRODUCING (PRESSING, EXTRACTION), REFINING AND PRESERVINGFATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES (e.g. LANOLIN), FATTY OILS AND WAXES,INCLUDING EXTRACTION FROM WASTE MATERIALS; SACCHARIDES, OTHER THAN SUCROSE, OBTAINED FROM NATURAL SOURCESOR BY HYDROLYSIS OF NATURALLY OCCURRING DI-, OLIGO- ORPOLYSACCHARIDES; SMOKERS' REQUISITES; SNUFF; SUGAR INDUSTRY; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; TOBACCO

Processes for recovering sugars and nicotine from a tobacco biomass include feeding a biomass of tobacco plants and subcritical water to a reactor, hydrolyzing the biomass of tobacco plants with the subcritical water at a temperature between about 150° C. and 305° C. and recovering a liquid product and a solid product from the reactor, wherein the liquid product contains water-soluble sugars and nicotine.