New pretreatment of wheat straw and bran in hexadecanol for the combined production of emulsifying base, glucose and lignin material

► Pretreatment of wheat straw in hexadecanol. ► Wheat straw hemicelluloses directly converted into surfactants. ► Cellulose enzymatic digestibility evaluated on the straw lignocellulosic residue. ► Lignin prepared and characterized.