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Item Pretreatment of bagasse, straw, and energy sugarcane using niobium phosphate catalyst(Universidade Federal de Viçosa, 2023-04-28) Gonçalves, Igor Martins; Teófilo, Reinaldo FranciscoPretreatment of bagasse, straw, and energy sugarcane using niobium phosphate catalyst. Adviser: Reinaldo Francisco Teófilo. The optimization of hydrothermal pretreatment (HTP) of sugarcane bagasse (SCB), sugarcane straw (SCS), and energy cane (E.C.) using niobium phosphate (NbP) catalyst is the aim of this work. The biomasses were characterized by chemical composition, moisture, and granulometry. The experiments were designed following a face-centered composite design (FCCD), using, as independent variables, temperature (140-180 °C), NbP catalyst load (1-100 %), and time. Dur- ing HTP, aliquots were taken each 15 minutes and analyzed until they reached 135 minutes. After HTP, the amounts of xylose, arabinose, and furfural (HMF) were determined in the liquor using high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The use of NbP as a catalyst proved to be very effective in the hemicellulose solubilization and the pentoses conversion in furfural. The maximum xylose productivity and best level for temperature and catalyst load were for SCB, SCS, and E.C., respectively 115 g/kg (180 °C and 1%), 71 g/kg (160 °C and 50.5 %), and 61 g/kg (180 °C and 1%). The results showed that furfural production is favored in a high temperature and catalyst load. The maximum furfural productivity predicted by the models were 95 g/kg, 75 g/kg, and 65 g/kg for SCB, SCS, and E.C., respectively. Keywords: Design of experiments. Bagasse. Catalyst. Energy cane. Sugarcane biomass. Xylose. Furfural.