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Chapter 7 - Biological pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass—Current trends and future perspectives

For the production of bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass, pretreatment is an important step for breaking the chemical bond present in lignocelluloses. Among the different pretreatment strategies, biological pretreatment is found to be a pro ...

Elsevier2019

Solid-oxide electrolyzer coupled biomass-to-methanol systems

François Maréchal, Ligang Wang, Hanfei Zhang

Biomass-derived fuels are attractive due to the reduced greenhouse gas emissions and the potential contribution to the development of the agricultural industry. Particularly, 2nd generation biofuels, e.g., synthetic biodiesel as a high-performance and alte ...

2019

Enzymes for second generation biofuels: recent developments and future perspectives

Edgard Gnansounou, Binod Parameswaran

Even though the search for alternative fuels from lignocellulosic biomass started a few decades ago, still it is relatively immature mainly because of few challenges which are yet to be solved for making the process commercially viable. The main challenge ...

2019

Optimization of Lignin Extraction from Pine Wood for Fast Pyrolysis by Using γ-valerolactone-Based Binary Solvent System

Jeremy Luterbacher, Allen Puente-Urbina

Fast pyrolysis of lignin is a promising method to produce aromatic chemicals and fuels. Lignin structure and pyrolysis conditions determine the liquid yield and product selectivity. Extraction of pine wood using γ-valerolactone (GVL) mixed with water in th ...

2019

Comparison of extraction techniques for product diversification in a supercritical water gasification-based sugarcane-wet microalgae biorefinery: Thermoeconomic and environmental analysis

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas

This study presents a thermoeconomic and environmental assessment of the extraction of lipids and proteins from wet microalgal biomass in a 3G biorefinery by two different technologies: supercritical fluid extraction (SFE) and low-pressure solvent extracti ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2018

Introduction to High Pressure CO2 and H2O Technologies in Sustainable Biomass Processing

Jeremy Luterbacher, Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago

Biomass is an attractive source of renewable carbon-based fuels and chemicals and their production is envisaged within the framework of integrated biorefineries. Multiple research efforts to make biorefineries more economically competitive and sustainable ...

The Royal Society of Chemistry2017

Direct Conversion of Mono- and Polysaccharides into 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural Using Ionic-Liquid Mixtures

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan, Sviatlana Siankevich, Philip Gregory Jessop

Platform chemicals are usually derived from petrochemical feedstocks. A sustainable alternative commences with lignocellulosic biomass, a renewable feedstock, but one that is highly challenging to process. Ionic liquids (ILs) are able to solubilize biomass ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag Berlin2016

Formaldehyde stabilization facilitates lignin monomer production during biomass depolymerization

Yiming Li, Jeremy Luterbacher, Masoud Talebi Amiri, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Ydna Marie Questell-Santiago, Li Shuai

Practical, high-yield lignin depolymerization methods could greatly increase biorefinery productivity and profitability. However, development of these methods is limited by the presence of interunit carbon-carbon bonds within native lignin, and further by ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2016

Application of Ionic Liquids in the Downstream Processing of Lignocellulosic Biomass

Paul Joseph Dyson, Zhaofu Fei, Ning Yan, Sviatlana Siankevich

Chemical transformations of lignocellulosic substrates to valuable platform chemicals are challenging as lignin and cellulose have high thermal and chemical stabilities. However, certain ionic liquids are able to dissolve and deconstruct biomass and, in th ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2015

Optimum Biorefinery Pathways Selection Using the Integer-Cuts Constraint Method Applied to a MILP Problem

François Maréchal, Adriano Viana Ensinas, Alberto Mian, Stefano Maronese

Biorefineries are multi-product facilities that convert biomass into a broad variety of products (energy, biofuels, chemicals, feed, and food). In this paper, a new systematic approach to select and rank different biorefinery conversion pathways is propose ...

2015

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