Sustainable production of levulinic acid and its derivatives for fuel additives and chemicals: progress, challenges, and prospects

M Sajid, U Farooq, G Bary, MM Azim, X Zhao - Green Chemistry, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Levulinic acid (LA) is one of the most promising biomass-derived platform chemicals owing
to its wider convertibility to a large number of commodity chemicals. Numerous LA …

Scalable lignocellulosic biorefineries: Technoeconomic review for efficient fermentable sugars production

K Ding, D Liu, X Chen, H Zhang, S Shi, X Guo… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Sugars derived from lignocellulosic biomass represent an appealing and critical platform for
advancing the bioeconomy. Attractive for the distinguished selectivity as well as green and …

Engineering co-utilization of glucose and xylose for chemical overproduction from lignocellulose

J Gao, W Yu, Y Li, M **, L Yao, YJ Zhou - Nature Chemical Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Bio-refining lignocellulose could provide a sustainable supply of fuels and fine chemicals;
however, the challenges associated with the co-utilization of xylose and glucose typically …

A novel cetyltrimethylammonium bromide-based deep eutectic solvent pretreatment of rice husk to efficiently enhance its enzymatic hydrolysis

Z Tang, C Wu, W Tang, C Ma, YC He - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Deep eutectic solvent (DES) has caught widely attention of researchers in biomass
pretreatment. As a highly efficient surfactant, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) was …

Big data mining, rational modification, and ancestral sequence reconstruction inferred multiple xylose isomerases for biorefinery

S Chen, Z Xu, B Ding, Y Zhang, S Liu, C Cai, M Li… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
The isomerization of xylose to xylulose is considered the most promising approach to initiate
xylose bioconversion. Here, phylogeny-guided big data mining, rational modification, and …

Towards efficient enzymatic saccharification of pretreated lignocellulose: enzyme inhibition by lignin-derived phenolics and recent trends in mitigation strategies

R Zhai, J Hu, M ** - Biotechnology Advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic biorefinery based on sugar-platform has been considered as an efficient
strategy to replace fossil fuel-based refinery. In the bioconversion process, pretreatment is …

The significance of biomass densification in biological-based biorefineries: A critical review

C Gong, X Meng, LG Thygesen, K Sheng, Y Pu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Replacing fossil fuels with renewable biofuels derived from lignocellulosic biomass is an
important aspect of addressing environmental challenges and develo** a sustainable …

Densification pretreatment with a limited deep eutectic solvent triggers high-efficiency fractionation and valorization of lignocellulose

G Shen, X Yuan, Y Cheng, S Chen, Z Xu, M ** - Green Chemistry, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Deep eutectic solvents (DESs) are intriguing for biomass fractionation, but high DES dosage
and low biomass loading make them challenging to be used in industry. In this study, a DES …

Modeling and design of fed-batch strategies for achieving 255 g/L sugar concentration from high-solid enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated corn stover

H Li, R Zhai, X Chen, X Jiang, C Li, Q Deng… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Achieving high sugar concentrations through enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated
lignocellulose with low enzyme loadings is crucial for reducing the costs of lignocellulosic …

Integrated biorefinery approaches for the industrialization of cellulosic ethanol fuel

J Qiao, H Cui, M Wang, X Fu, X Wang, X Li… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant and sustainable raw material, but its conversion into
ethanol fuel has not yet achieved large-scale industrialization and economic benefits …