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 …

Lignocellulosic biomass is recalcitrant to biodegradation due to the rigid and compact
structure of plant cell wall. The recalcitrance of biomass is mainly constructed by its chemical …

Lignocelluloses are often a major or sometimes the sole components of different waste
streams from various industries, forestry, agriculture and municipalities. Hydrolysis of these …

Production of ethanol by bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass has attracted much
interest in recent years. However, the pretreatment process for increasing the enzymatic …

Bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol is significantly hindered by the structural
and chemical complexity of biomass, which makes these materials a challenge to be used …

In the past three decades, many studies on the production of biofuels and other chemicals
have been conducted using renewable sources such as lignocellulosic biomass …

Pre‐treatment to increase cellulose enzymatic hydrolyzability is a prerequisite step for
bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass. The final objective of pre‐treatment is to increase …

Currently, most of the energy demand around the world is met from crude oil, coal and
natural gas. Due to the fluctuations in price of crude oil, depletion of fossil fuel and increased …

A number of pre‐treatment methods have been developed during the last few decades to
overcome biomass recalcitrance. Although the mechanisms of these pre‐treatments are …

Wheat and rye straws were pretreated with ozone to increase the enzymatic hydrolysis
extent of potentially fermentable sugars. Through a 25–1 factorial design, this work studies …