Rohrbach, Jessica C. Luterbacher, Jeremy S.
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Biotechnology for Biofuels
BackgroundUnderstanding how the digestibility of lignocellulosic biomass is affected by its morphology is essential to design efficient processes for biomass deconstruction. In this study, we used a model based on a set of partial differential equations describing the evolution of the substrate morphology to investigate the interplay between experi...
Shimizu, Naoto Zeng, Bingyao Kushima, Keisuke
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SN Applied Sciences
This work describes batch-type hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) treatments of conifer wood chips at 180–425 °C, under either air or nitrogen atmosphere. Such experiments allow efficient extraction of 5-hydroxymethyl furfural (HMF) and other valuable chemical substances, such as glycolic acid and acetic acid, from the lignocellulosic biomass. These c...
Ávila, Patrícia F. Silva, Marcos F. Martins, Manoela Goldbeck, Rosana
Published in
World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
AbstractCello-oligosaccharides (COS) are linear oligosaccharides composed of β-1,4-linked glucopyranose units. They comprise a group of important new oligosaccharides of significant interest and potential applications in the pharmaceutical, food, chemical, and feed industries, currently emerging as potential prebiotic compounds. COS from lignocellu...
Konzock, Oliver Zaghen, Simone Norbeck, Joakim
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BMC Microbiology
BackgroundLignocellulosic material is a suitable renewable carbon and energy source for microbial cell factories, such as Yarrowia lipolytica. To be accessible for microorganisms, the constituent sugars need to be released in a hydrolysis step, which as a side effect leads to the formation of various inhibitory compounds. However, the effects of th...
Bichot, Aurélie Lerosty, Mickaël Méchin, Valérie Bernet, Nicolas Delgenès, Jean-Philippe Garcia-Bernet, Diana
As a result of increasing demand for alternatives to fossil energy, the agricultural biogas sector is in expansion and lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) represents an interesting renewable feedstock. Nevertheless, due to the recalcitrance and complexity of its structure, deconstructive pretreatments are necessary to render possible biochemical conversi...
Nath, Priyanka Maibam, Premeshworii Devi Singh, Shweta Rajulapati, Vikky Goyal, Arun
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3 Biotech
Sequential pretreatments for sugarcane bagasse (scb) by NaOH followed by organosolv under mild conditions were evaluated for cellulose recovery and dilignification. The best-optimized sequential pretreatment of scb was obtained at 10% (w/v) of raw scb loading at 1% (w/v) NaOH (50 °C, 2 h) followed by treatment with organosolv (85%, v/v phosphoric a...
Yang, Liangcheng Moran, Trevar Han, Alicia
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Bioenergy Research
Anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic biomass faces changes such as biomass floating and effluent discharge. To overcome these challenges, a unique removable cartridge anaerobic digester was built and tested using corn stover as the feedstock. Three operating methods differing in the number of cartridges and days of rotation were tested. The first...
Xu, Huanfei Kong, Yi Peng, Jianjun Song, Xiaoming Liu, Yaoze Su, Zhenning Li, Bin Gao, Chuanhui Tian, Wende
Choline chloride based deep eutectic solvents have showed great potential in lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment. In this study, for DES pretreatment with different hydrogen bond donners of different raw materials under different reaction conditions, multivariate analysis methods including principal component analysis and partial least squares ana...
Arun, Jayaseelan Gopinath, Kannappan Panchamoorthy Sivaramakrishnan, Ramachandran Shyam, Sivaprasad Mayuri, Namasivayam Manasa, Sadhasivan Pugazhendhi, Arivalagan
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Bioresource technology
The objective of this work was to study the hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of Prosopis juliflora biomass for the production of ferulic acid and bio-oil. Biomass was processed with various solvents (NaOH, KOH, HCl and H2SO4) to produce ferulic acid (FA). FA oxidation was carried out using the Nano ZnO catalyst to produce an optimum vanillin yield o...
Romero Millan, Lina Maria Sierra Vargas, Fabio Emiro Nzihou, Ange
Lignocellulosic agrowastes are one of the most abundant and inexpensive bioresources on earth. However, they comprise a wide range of materials with different organic and inorganic composition that may influence their performance in energy applications. Here, we analyze the impact of inherent inorganics on the steam gasification performance of bior...
