Non-Thermal Plasma as a Biomass Pretreatment in Biorefining Processes

Climatic changes and the growing population call for innovative solutions that are able to produce biochemicals by adopting environmentally sustainable procedures. The biorefinery concept meets this requirement. However, one of main drawbacks biorefineries is represented feedstocks’ pretreatment. Lately, scientific research has focused on non-thermal plasma, which an pretreatment obtain a high sugar concentration. In present review, literature related use plasma production fermentable have been collected. particular, its extraction, time, energy consumption compared with those traditional biomass pretreatments. As reported, hand, emerging technology characterized low costs no waste production; other reactor’s configuration must be optimized reduce time demand.