Enabling lignin valorization through integrated advances in plant biology and biorefining

RA Dixon, A Puente-Urbina… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Despite lignin having long been viewed as an impediment to the processing of biomass for
the production of paper, biofuels, and high-value chemicals, the valorization of lignin to …

Advancements and Perspectives toward Lignin Valorization via O‐Demethylation

X Wu, E Smet, F Brandi, D Raikwar, Z Zhang… - Angewandte …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Lignin represents the largest aromatic carbon resource in plants, holding significant promise
as a renewable feedstock for bioaromatics and other cyclic hydrocarbons in the context of …

A guide to lignin valorization in biorefineries: traditional, recent, and forthcoming approaches to convert raw lignocellulose into valuable materials and chemicals

F Brienza, D Cannella, D Montesdeoca, I Cybulska… - RSC …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Lignin is the most abundant source of renewable aromatics on Earth, yet its enormous
potential remains underexploited in current biorefinery and pul** processes. The …

CRISPR/Cas9 editing of p-COUMAROYL-CoA: MONOLIGNOL TRANSFERASE 1 in maize alters phenolic metabolism, lignin structure, and lignin-first biomass …

DM Oliveira, M de LS Saleme, RA Smith… - Trends in …, 2025 - cell.com
Valorization of lignocellulosic biomass for sustainable production of high-value chemicals is
challenged by the complexity of lignin, a phenolic biopolymer. Beyond the classical lignin …

Uncovering Challenges for Complete Carbohydrate to Bioethanol Utilization in a Reductive Catalytic Fractionation Biorefinery

T Nicolaï, W Arts, S Calderon-Ardila… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The reductive catalytic fractionation (RCF) biorefinery, developed for high-quality lignin oil
extraction from lignocellulose biomass, concurrently produces a (hemi) cellulose pulp …

The environmental impacts of the lignin-first biorefineries: A consequential life cycle assessment approach

M Tschulkow, M Pizzol, T Compernolle… - Resources …, 2024 - Elsevier
The emerging reductive catalytic fractionation biorefinery which is currently under
development aims to convert woody biomass efficiently into high-value products. Despite its …

Improved Reductive Catalytic Fractionation of Lignocellulosic Biomass through the Application of a Recyclable Magnetic Catalyst

F Bugli, A Baldelli, S Thomas, M Sgarzi… - ACS Sustainable …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The reductive catalytic fractionation (RCF) of second generation lignocellulosic biomass is
an elegant one-pot process to obtain a highly delignified cellulose pulp, sugar-derived …

Design and Validation of a High-Throughput Reductive Catalytic Fractionation Method

JK Kenny, SR Neefe, DG Brandner, ML Stone… - JACS Au, 2024 - ACS Publications
Reductive catalytic fractionation (RCF) is a promising method to extract and depolymerize
lignin from biomass, and bench-scale studies have enabled considerable progress in the …

Spatio-temporal feedstock availability and techno-economic constraints in the design and optimization of supply chains: The case of domestic woody biomass for …

A De Meyer, S Verdonck, I Storms, J López… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2024 - Elsevier
A future bio-based economy envisions the transformation of the petrochemical industry into
using biomass such as wood (waste) as a major resource. The early-stage evaluation of a …

[HTML][HTML] Optimizing energy use in the integrated utilization of woody biomass: Process development and simulation

Q Wan, Y Lu, L Cheng, J Shi, L **a, J Xu - Industrial Crops and Products, 2025 - Elsevier
A biorefinery process is developed for the fractionation of oil-tea camellia fruit shell wastes
into three main products. A scale-up experiment was first carried out in this paper. Oil-tea …