Valorisation of nuts biowaste: Prospects in sustainable bio (nano) catalysts and environmental applications

Y Orooji, N Han, Z Nezafat, N Shafiei, Z Shen… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
The nutrient resources make up a significant portion of wastes from all around the world.
According to several recent studies, nuts and their residues are regarded as valuable …

Catalytic transformation of lignin for the production of chemicals and fuels

C Li, X Zhao, A Wang, GW Huber, T Zhang - Chemical reviews, 2015 - ACS Publications
Biomass is any organic matter that is renewable over time. In the context of energy, this is
often used to mean plant-based materials, such as agricultural residues, forestry wastes …

Recent progress on catalytic pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass to high-grade bio-oil and bio-chemicals

G Kabir, BH Hameed - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Pyrolysis converts lignocellulosic biomass to bio-oil that can be a precursor to fuel and
chemicals for industries. The bio-oil contains high oxygenates fractions that deteriorate the …

Recent advances in second generation bioethanol production: An insight to pretreatment, saccharification and fermentation processes

M Rastogi, S Shrivastava - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
In response to the scarcity of non-renewable energy sources, sustainable and renewable
biofuels from biomass have gained utmost attention. Utilization of lignocellulosic biomass for …

Lignocellulosic biomass for bioethanol: Insight into the advanced pretreatment and fermentation approaches

K Malik, P Sharma, Y Yang, P Zhang, L Zhang… - Industrial Crops and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The global energy demand and need for sustainable sources are expected to rise in the
coming years. The second-generation bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass …

Progress on the pre-treatment of lignocellulosic biomass employing ionic liquids

P Halder, S Kundu, S Patel, A Setiawan, R Atkin… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The effective pre-treatment methods are required for the destruction of the complex biomass
structure to economically produce high grade fuels and valuable platform chemicals. Ionic …

Effective pretreatment of lignin-rich coconut wastes using a low-cost ionic liquid

SO Anuchi, KLS Campbell, JP Hallett - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Coconut husks and shells are underutilised agricultural feedstocks in the bio-based industry.
These biomass wastes have a higher lignin content than other woody biomass and have …

Engineering plant biomass lignin content and composition for biofuels and bioproducts

CM Welker, VK Balasubramanian, C Petti, KM Rai… - Energies, 2015 - mdpi.com
Lignin is an aromatic biopolymer involved in providing structural support to plant cell walls.
Compared to the other cell wall polymers, ie, cellulose and hemicelluloses, lignin has been …

Hydrothermal reactions of agricultural and food processing wastes in sub-and supercritical water: a review of fundamentals, mechanisms, and state of research

I Pavlovic, Z Knez, M Skerget - Journal of agricultural and food …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Hydrothermal (HT) reactions of agricultural and food-processing waste have been proposed
as an alternative to conventional waste treatment technologies due to allowing several …

A distributed activation energy model for the pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass

J Cai, W Wu, R Liu, GW Huber - Green Chemistry, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
The pyrolysis kinetics of xylan, cellulose, and eight lignocellulosic biomass samples
(including corn stover, cotton stalk, palm oil husk, pine wood, red oak, sugarcane bagasse …