Structural Changes of Peg Assisted 1-Butyl 3-Methylimidazolium Chloride Pretreated Sugar Cane Bagasse For Enhanced Enzymatic Hydrolysis

In this study, sugar cane bagasse was pretreated by [bmim]cl and polyethyleneglycol (peg) to enhance the enzymatic conversion and consequently the fermentation yield of the lignocelluloses# the structural changes of the raw and peg assisted ionic liquid pretreated lignocellulosic sample was investigated to understand that how this combination is efficient for lignnocelluloses pretreatment# the process was optimized and the structural analysis was conducted on samples pretreated at optimum condition# fourier transform- infrared spectroscopy was mainly used to evaluate the various structural changes in the sugar cane bagasse# lateral order index (loi) and total crystallinity index (tci) was calculated from ft-ir data as two parameters to evaluate the pretreatment impacts#