Solvent Fractionation of Lignin

Abstract

Lignin is a highly abundant source of renewable carbon that can be considered as a valuable sustainable source of biobased materials. The major issues for the commercial production of value added high performance lignin products are lignin’s physical and chemical heterogenities. To overcome these problems, a variety of procedures have been developed to produce pure lignin suitable for high performace applications such as lignin-derived carbon materials. However, most of the isolation procedures affect lignin’s properties and structure. In this chapter, a short review of the effect of solvent fractionation on lignin’s properties and structure is presented.