“…Thus, hemicellulose can be separated as a liquid fraction by means of a hydrolysis stage, obtaining a solid which contains cellulose and lignin that can subsequently be valorized (Cai et al, 2014;Cuevas et al, 2015b;Raman and Gnansounou, 2015). In the literature, there are numerous studies dealing with the production of furfural from agricultural biomass, in single (Fernández-Bolaños et al, 2001;Lama-Muñoz et al, 2014;Saleh et al, 2014;Cuevas et al, 2015a), two-steps (Riansa-Ngawong and Prasertsan, 201; Raman and Gnansounou, 2015) or continuous (You et al, 2015) processes. However, cellulose and lignin can also be degraded, leading to side reactions that decrease furfural yield and generate more wastes (Zhang et al, 2014).…”