Steam explosion as sustainable biomass pretreatment technique for biofuel production: Characteristics and challenges

AT Hoang, XP Nguyen, XQ Duong, Ü Ağbulut… - Bioresource …, 2023 - Elsevier
The biorefining process of lignocellulosic biomass has recently emerged as one of the most
profitable biofuel production options. However, pretreatment is required to improve the …

Biomass fractionation and lignin fractionation towards lignin valorization

J Xu, C Li, L Dai, C Xu, Y Zhong, F Yu, C Si - ChemSusChem, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Lignin, as the most abundant aromatic biopolymer in nature, has attracted great attention
due to the complexity and richness of its functional groups for value‐added applications. The …

Renewable biohydrogen production from lignocellulosic biomass using fermentation and integration of systems with other energy generation technologies

SK Bhatia, SS Jagtap, AA Bedekar, RK Bhatia… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Biohydrogen is a clean and renewable source of energy. It can be produced by using
technologies such as thermochemical, electrolysis, photoelectrochemical and biological, etc …

A comprehensive review on the biological conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into hydrogen: Pretreatment strategy, technology advances and perspectives

VC Deivayanai, PR Yaashikaa, PS Kumar… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
The globe has dependent on energy generation and utilization for many years; conversely,
ecological concerns constrained the world to view hydrogen as an alternative for economic …

Determination of hydroxyl groups in biorefinery resources via quantitative 31P NMR spectroscopy

X Meng, C Crestini, H Ben, N Hao, Y Pu… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The analysis of chemical structural characteristics of biorefinery product streams (such as
lignin and tannin) has advanced substantially over the past decade, with traditional wet …

A simple and effective approach to fabricate lignin nanoparticles with tunable sizes based on lignin fractionation

M Ma, L Dai, J Xu, Z Liu, Y Ni - Green Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent years, an increasing number of studies have shown that lignin nanoparticles
(LNPs) are a new kind of green and sustainable material with potential applications in many …

Perspective on technical lignin fractionation

H Sadeghifar, A Ragauskas - ACS sustainable chemistry & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Technical lignin extracted from pul** and biorefining processes provides a class of
complex and polydisperse phenolic polymers. Preparation of lignin with lower structural …

Fractionation of industrial lignins: opportunities and challenges

M Gigli, C Crestini - Green Chemistry, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Lignin is a readily available yet heavily underutilised resource due to its severe degree of
variability related to the plant source and to the processes employed for its isolation. Being …

Lignin fractionation: Effective strategy to reduce molecule weight dependent heterogeneity for upgraded lignin valorization

T Pang, G Wang, H Sun, W Sui, C Si - Industrial crops and products, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional pul** processes and emerging lignocellulosic biorefineries provide a large
quantity of lignin with heterogeneous characters, including complex chemical structure and …

Electrospun lignin-based carbon nanofibers as supercapacitor electrodes

M Zhu, H Liu, Q Cao, H Zheng, D Xu… - ACS Sustainable …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Lignin shows great potential for carbon-based functional materials and composite material
electronics. However, high heterogeneity, poor thermal stability, and low molecular weight …