Biomass pretreatment
Biomass pretreatment affects Ustilago maydis in producing itaconic acid
... from pretreatment, it has been shown that pretreatment can significantly influence the subsequent fermentation ...from biomass pretreatment can inhibit microbial growth and the production of ...
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Biomass pretreatment by metal oxides for reducing sugar degradation and water consumption in biofuel production
... lignocellulosic biomass for biofuel production still faces technical challenges, including the low coefficient of utilization of both cellulose and hemicellulose due to the chemical structural seal caused by ...
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Microalgal biomass pretreatment for bioethanol production: a review
... mechanical pretreatment processes most used in the industry in batch or continuous mode for grinding of minerals, ceramics, powders, among other compounds, are the bead mill and the ball ...Besides biomass ...
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Life cycle assessment of lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods in biofuel production
... Methods Using literature data, an LCA of four different pre- treatment methods was carried out. Liquid hot water (LHW), steam explosion (SE), dilute acid (DA), and organosolv (OS) were chosen as the most common ...
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Physical methods of microalgal biomass pretreatment
... microalgal biomass. This pretreatment method increased the availability of the ...of biomass (Houghton et ...the biomass composition and lipid content ...and pretreatment is shown in ...
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Maize feedstocks with improved digestibility reduce the costs and environmental impacts of biomass pretreatment and saccharification
... competitive biomass yields. Small-scale cellulosic biomass refineries are constrained by the poor performance figures on economics and environmental efficiency of biomass-to-fuel conversion ...
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Cellulose Dissolution in Ionic Liquids and Their Mixtures with Solvents: Linking Ion/Solvent Structure and Efficacy of Biomass Pretreatment.
... Initially, studies focused on the use of PILs, a less studied inexpensive class of ILs. With a simple synthesis procedure and the ability to be distilled, these ILs would be ideal for biomass processing if the ...
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Literature Review of Physical and Chemical Pretreatment Processes for Lignocellulosic Biomass
... the biomass pretreatment methods available in literature must be made in order to determine their feasibility when designing an industrial biomass-based ...some pretreatment methods is given ...
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Elucidating the role of ferrous ion cocatalyst in enhancing dilute acid pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass
... of biomass deconstruction as catalyzed by iron ions, either in Fe 2+ ion form [1,6] or in ferric ion form (hereinafter referred to as Fe 3+ ) [4-6], remains ...in biomass pretreatment is its ...
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Promise of combined hydrothermal/chemical and mechanical refining for pretreatment of woody and herbaceous biomass
... mechanical pretreatment can be determined based on biomass moisture ...for pretreatment purposes, but are important for reduc- ing particle sizes to increase biomass flowability ...for ...
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A novel hybrid organosolv: steam explosion method for the efficient fractionation and pretreatment of birch biomass
... hybrid pretreatment method developed here resulted in a process with delignifica- tion yields as high as 86% (as calculated with the ...of pretreatment conditions ...hybrid pretreatment method, ...
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Hydrothermal Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass and Kinetics
... the pretreatment were dependent on the process ...the pretreatment part of monomers (hexoses pyranosidic structures and pentoses furanosidic structures) were con- verted into hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) and ...
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Survey of renewable chemicals produced from lignocellulosic biomass during ionic liquid pretreatment
... starting material) decreases as a function of increasing biomass loading. Higher quantities of ally guaiacol are produced from low sulfonate alkali lignin (2 g/kg) than from kraft lignin (1 g/kg). Other products ...
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A laboratory-scale pretreatment and hydrolysis assay for determination of reactivity in cellulosic biomass feedstocks
... For pretreatment experiments, the concept of reactor severity [24,26,29,30] or severity factor is commonly used to characterize the combination of time and temperature in a given ...to biomass, it is ...
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Understanding the structural and chemical changes of plant biomass following steam explosion pretreatment
... explosion pretreatment represents a versatile pretreatment promoting the glucose release from cellu- lase-catalysed hydrolysis of woody and non-woody spe- ...the pretreatment significantly removes ...
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Anaerobic co-digestion of microalgal biomass and wheat straw with and without thermo-alkaline pretreatment
... microalgae and wheat straw co-digestion (50-50%) (co-digestion) and thermo-alkaline pretreated microalge and wheat straw co-digestion (50-50%) (co-digestion+pretreatment) obtained in se[r] ...
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Ensiling and hydrothermal pretreatment of grass: consequences for enzymatic biomass conversion and total monosaccharide yields
... the biomass is of course an advantage to the enzymatic li- quefaction ...HTT pretreatment and reduces complications of en- zymatic hydrolysis at high DM concentrations ...creased biomass ...
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Mechanical Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Methane Fermentation in Innovative Reactor with Cage Mixing System
... Nowadays, biogas plants are substrates main- ly composed of lignocellulose that is included in such materials as agricultural and forestry wastes, municipal solid waste, and herbaceous energy crops [Bhatia et al. 2017]. ...
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HYDROLYSIS OF AGRICULTURAL BIOMASS BY COMBINED PRETREATMENT AND ENZYMATIC METHODS IN ORDER TO PRODUCE BIOFUELS (ETHANOL, BIOGAS)
... The use of energy crops (maize straw, wheat straw, barley straw etc.) as substrate for renewable energy production (e.g. biogas) is more efficient when it is degraded by different hydrolysis methods. However, fibers ...
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Rapid and effective oxidative pretreatment of woody biomass at mild reaction conditions and low oxidant loadings
... AHP pretreatment cata- lyzed by copper(II) 2,2΄-bipyridine complexes (Cu(bpy)) can result in significant improvements in the enzymatic digestibility of a number of biomass feedstocks including switchgrass, ...
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