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 …

As a staple food for much of the world, rice production is widespread. However, it also
results in the generation of large quantities of non-food biomass, primarily in the form of …

To overcome the energy demand and environmental issues by applying ecofriendly
techniques to produce green energy are getting high attentions in these days …

Producing biogas from straw is an effective way to manage straw from crops. However, there
are difficult technical problems in the biogas fermentation process because it is difficult for …

Increased environmental concern over climate change due to higher oil usage has made
human being to shift to cleaner and greener alternatives. The utilization of abundant …

Agro-waste (wheat straw) is considered most effective (heating value 16 MJ/kg) for energy
recovery through anaerobic digestion (AD). However, the complex lignocellulosic structure …

Corn is one of the major crops in most of the agricultural countries. In the US and China, the
corn production shows increasing trends with the annual production of corn stover of 250 …

Bioenergy, derived from biomass and/or biological (or biomass-derived) waste residues, has
been acknowledged as a sustainable and clean burning source of renewable energy with …

Rice straw was subjected to fungal pretreatment using Pleurotus ostreatus and Trichoderma
reesei to improve its biodegradability and methane production via solid-state anaerobic …

Biofuel production from lignocellulose has recently been gaining much more attention as a
result. One major problem of using lignocellulosic materials for the production of biofuel is …