FIGURE 2.

Simplified comparison of industrial processes such as pulping or saccharification and fermentation, which produce renewable bioproducts from lignocellulosic biomass. Comparison of the processing steps where woody biomass is converted into bioproducts. Pulping results in either paper-grade pulp which comprises both cellulose and hemicellulose with lignin removed, or dissolving pulp where both lignin and hemicelluloses are removed to yield only high purity cellulose. Due to the simplified nature of the illustration, several processing steps may be represented as a single process.