Photoreforming of waste polymers for sustainable hydrogen fuel and chemicals feedstock: waste to energy

M Ashraf, N Ullah, I Khan, W Tremel, S Ahmad… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Energy from renewable resources is central to environmental sustainability. Among the
renewables, sunlight-driven fuel synthesis is a sustainable and economical approach to …

Progress on the lignocellulosic biomass pyrolysis for biofuel production toward environmental sustainability

AT Hoang, HC Ong, IMR Fattah, CT Chong… - Fuel Processing …, 2021 - Elsevier
The increasing energy demand and diminishing fossil fuel sources have called for the
exploration of new energy sources. To satisfy growing global energy demand and …

Lignocellulosic biomass: understanding recalcitrance and predicting hydrolysis

A Zoghlami, G Paës - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Lignocellulosic biomass (LB) is an abundant and renewable resource from plants mainly
composed of polysaccharides (cellulose and hemicelluloses) and an aromatic polymer …

Current perspective on pretreatment technologies using lignocellulosic biomass: An emerging biorefinery concept

B Kumar, N Bhardwaj, K Agrawal, V Chaturvedi… - Fuel processing …, 2020 - Elsevier
A critical factor which controls the socio-economic development of any nation is “energy”.
With depleting fossil fuels, there is a shift in focus to lignocellulosic biorefinery. The review …

Enzymatic processing of lignocellulosic biomass: principles, recent advances and perspectives

H Østby, LD Hansen, SJ Horn… - Journal of Industrial …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Efficient saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass requires concerted development of a
pretreatment method, an enzyme cocktail and an enzymatic process, all of which are …

Efficient sugar production from plant biomass: Current status, challenges, and future directions

JY Zhu, X Pan - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic plant biomass is recognized as an alternative resource for sustainable
production of liquid fuels, chemicals, and polymeric materials through the biorefining …

Importance of chemical pretreatment for bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass

S Behera, R Arora, N Nandhagopal, S Kumar - Renewable and sustainable …, 2014 - Elsevier
Lignocelluloses are often a major or sometimes the sole components in different waste
streams from various sources such as industries, forestry, agriculture and municipalities. It …

Second generation bioethanol production: A critical review

HB Aditiya, TMI Mahlia, WT Chong, H Nur… - … and sustainable energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
It is a popular fact that the world's dependency on fossil fuel has caused unfavourable
effects, including lessening crude oil reserve, decreasing air quality, rising global …

Organic solvent effects in biomass conversion reactions

L Shuai, J Luterbacher - ChemSusChem, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Transforming lignocellulosic biomass into fuels and chemicals has been intensely studied in
recent years. A large amount of work has been dedicated to finding suitable solvent systems …

Biomass pretreatment: fundamentals toward application

VB Agbor, N Cicek, R Sparling, A Berlin… - Biotechnology advances, 2011 - Elsevier
Development of sustainable energy systems based on renewable biomass feedstocks is
now a global effort. Lignocellulosic biomass contains polymers of cellulose, hemicellulose …