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 …

Production of 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) from 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF): recent progress focusing on the chemical-catalytic routes

M Sajid, X Zhao, D Liu - Green chemistry, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) has been considered as a good precursor, instead of
petroleum-derived terephthalate acid (TPA), for producing green polymers such as …

A critical review on operating parameters and strategies to improve the biogas yield from anaerobic digestion of organic fraction of municipal solid waste

S Panigrahi, BK Dubey - Renewable Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
With the rising population and affluence, the management of significantly increased quantity
of municipal solid waste is reaching a critical level in almost all regions of the world. The …

Sustainable production of levulinic acid and its derivatives for fuel additives and chemicals: progress, challenges, and prospects

M Sajid, U Farooq, G Bary, MM Azim, X Zhao - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Levulinic acid (LA) is one of the most promising biomass-derived platform chemicals owing
to its wider convertibility to a large number of commodity chemicals. Numerous LA …

Lignin-carbohydrate complexes (LCCs) and its role in biorefinery

Y Zhao, U Shakeel, MSU Rehman, H Li, X Xu… - Journal of cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Although lignocellulosic biomass is traditionally considered to be composed of cellulose,
hemicellulose, and lignin, each of these components does not exist individually. Structurally …

A comprehensive review of the recent development and challenges of a solar-assisted biodigester system

HM Mahmudul, MG Rasul, D Akbar… - Science of The Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
The extensive use of fossil fuels and the environmental effect of their combustion products
have attracted researchers to look into renewable energy sources. In addition, global mass …

Heterogeneous catalytic conversion of sugars into 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid

ADK Deshan, L Atanda, L Moghaddam… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Achieving the goal of living in a sustainable and greener society, will need the chemical
industry to move away from petroleum-based refineries to bio-refineries. This aim can be …

Multiproduct biorefinery based on almond shells: Impact of the delignification stage on the manufacture of valuable products

A Morales, F Hernández-Ramos, L Sillero… - Bioresource …, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, an integral valorisation of almond shells through a biorefinery approach was
studied. The three main components of almond shells were extracted, isolated and …

Catalytic Conversion of Xylose to Furfural by p-Toluenesulfonic Acid (pTSA) and Chlorides: Process Optimization and Kinetic Modeling

M Sajid, M Rizwan Dilshad, M Saif Ur Rehman, D Liu… - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Furfural is one of the most promising precursor chemicals with an extended range of
downstream derivatives. In this work, conversion of xylose to produce furfural was performed …

Hydrothermal treatments of walnut shells: A potential pretreatment for subsequent product obtaining

A Morales, J Labidi, P Gullón - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Walnuts are nowadays widely consumed. Since the edible part of walnuts does not account
more than 50–60% of their total weight, the total amount of shells produced annually is …