Production of bioethanol from lignocellulosic materials via the biochemical pathway: a review

M Balat - Energy conversion and management, 2011 - Elsevier
Bioethanol is by far the most widely used biofuel for transportation worldwide. Production of
bioethanol from biomass is one way to reduce both consumption of crude oil and …

Hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials for ethanol production: a review

Y Sun, J Cheng - Bioresource technology, 2002 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic biomass can be utilized to produce ethanol, a promising alternative energy
source for the limited crude oil. There are mainly two processes involved in the conversion …

[ΒΙΒΛΙΟ][B] Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass

P Bajpai, P Bajpai - 2016 - Springer
Biofuels produced from various lignocellulosic materials have the potential to be a valuable
substitute for, or complement to, gasoline. Many physicochemical structural and …

A review of the production of ethanol from softwood

M Galbe, G Zacchi - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2002 - Springer
Ethanol produced from various lignocellulosic materials such as wood, agricultural and
forest residues has the potential to be a valuable substitute for, or complement to, gasoline …

Status and barriers of advanced biofuel technologies: a review

JJ Cheng, GR Timilsina - Renewable Energy, 2011 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of biofuels from renewable resources is critical to the sustainability of
the world's economy and to slow down the global climate change. Currently, a significant …

Ethanol as an alternative fuel from agricultural, industrial and urban residues

S Prasad, A Singh, HC Joshi - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2007 - Elsevier
With world reserves of petroleum fast depleting, in recent years ethanol has emerged as
most important alternative resource for liquid fuel and has generated a great deal of …

Mechanism of surfactant effect in enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulose

T Eriksson, J Börjesson, F Tjerneld - Enzyme and microbial technology, 2002 - Elsevier
Lignocellulose is a potential substrate for ethanol production. However, high cellulose
conversion requires high enzyme loading, which makes the process less economically …

Challenges in biobutanol production: how to improve the efficiency?

V García, J Päkkilä, H Ojamo, E Muurinen… - … and sustainable energy …, 2011 - Elsevier
There is an increasing interest in the production of chemicals and fuels from renewable
resources due to the continuing price increase of fossil resources, the insecurity of the …

Fractionating recalcitrant lignocellulose at modest reaction conditions

YHP Zhang, SY Ding, JR Mielenz… - Biotechnology and …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Effectively releasing the locked polysaccharides from recalcitrant lignocellulose to
fermentable sugars is among the greatest technical and economic barriers to the realization …

Enhancement of cellulose saccharification kinetics using an ionic liquid pretreatment step

AP Dadi, S Varanasi, CA Schall - Biotechnology and …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrolysis of cellulose to glucose in aqueous media catalyzed by the cellulase enzyme
system suffers from slow reaction rates due in large part to the highly crystalline structure of …