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Mohammadi M, Alian M, Dale B, Ubanwa B, Balan V. Multifaced application of AFEX-pretreated biomass in producing second-generation biofuels, ruminant animal feed, and value-added bioproducts. Biotechnol Adv 2024; 72:108341. [PMID: 38499256 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2024.108341] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/04/2024] [Revised: 03/06/2024] [Accepted: 03/15/2024] [Indexed: 03/20/2024]
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Lignocellulosic biomass holds a crucial position in the prospective bio-based economy, serving as a sustainable and renewable source for a variety of bio-based products. These products play a vital role in displacing fossil fuels and contributing to environmental well-being. However, the inherent recalcitrance of biomass poses a significant obstacle to the efficient access of sugar polymers. Consequently, the bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass into fermentable sugars remains a prominent challenge in biorefinery processes to produce biofuels and biochemicals. In addressing these challenges, extensive efforts have been dedicated to mitigating biomass recalcitrance through diverse pretreatment methods. One noteworthy process is Ammonia Fiber Expansion (AFEX) pretreatment, characterized by its dry-to-dry nature and minimal water usage. The volatile ammonia, acting as a catalyst in the process, is recyclable. AFEX contributes to cleaning biomass ester linkages and facilitating the opening of cell wall structures, enhancing enzyme accessibility and leading to a fivefold increase in sugar conversion compared to untreated biomass. Over the last decade, AFEX has demonstrated substantial success in augmenting the efficiency of biomass conversion processes. This success has unlocked the potential for sustainable and economically viable biorefineries. This paper offers a comprehensive review of studies focusing on the utilization of AFEX-pretreated biomass in the production of second-generation biofuels, ruminant feed, and additional value-added bioproducts like enzymes, lipids, proteins, and mushrooms. It delves into the details of the AFEX pretreatment process at both laboratory and pilot scales, elucidates the mechanism of action, and underscores the role of AFEX in the biorefinery for developing biofuels and bioproducts, and nutritious ruminant animal feed production. While highlighting the strides made, the paper also addresses current challenges in the commercialization of AFEX pretreatment within biorefineries. Furthermore, it outlines critical considerations that must be addressed to overcome these challenges, ensuring the continued progress and widespread adoption of AFEX in advancing sustainable and economically viable bio-based industries.
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- Maedeh Mohammadi
- Department of Engineering Technology, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, Sugarland, TX 77479, USA
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- Department of Engineering Technology, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, Sugarland, TX 77479, USA
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA
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- Department of Engineering Technology, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, Sugarland, TX 77479, USA
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- Department of Engineering Technology, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, Sugarland, TX 77479, USA.
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Wang J, Ma D, Lou Y, Ma J, Xing D. Optimization of biogas production from straw wastes by different pretreatments: Progress, challenges, and prospects. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2023; 905:166992. [PMID: 37717772 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.166992] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2023] [Revised: 09/09/2023] [Accepted: 09/09/2023] [Indexed: 09/19/2023]
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Lignocellulosic biomass (LCB) presents a promising feedstock for carbon management due to enormous potential for achieving carbon neutrality and delivering substantial environmental and economic benefit. Bioenergy derived from LCB accounts for about 10.3 % of the global total energy supply. The generation of bioenergy through anaerobic digestion (AD) in combination with carbon capture and storage, particularly for methane production, provides a cost-effective solution to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, while concurrently facilitating bioenergy production and the recovery of high-value products during LCB conversion. However, the inherent recalcitrant polymer crystal structure of lignocellulose impedes the accessibility of anaerobic bacteria, necessitating lignocellulosic residue pretreatment before AD or microbial chain elongation. This paper seeks to explore recent advances in pretreatment methods for LCB biogas production, including pulsed electric field (PEF), electron beam irradiation (EBI), freezing-thawing pretreatment, microaerobic pretreatment, and nanomaterials-based pretreatment, and provide a comprehensive overview of the performance, benefits, and drawbacks of the traditional and improved treatment methods. In particular, physical-chemical pretreatment emerges as a flexible and effective option for methane production from straw wastes. The burgeoning field of nanomaterials has provoked progress in the development of artificial enzyme mimetics and enzyme immobilization techniques, compensating for the intrinsic defect of natural enzyme. However, various complex factors, such as economic effectiveness, environmental impact, and operational feasibility, influence the implementation of LCB pretreatment processes. Techno-economic analysis (TEA), life cycle assessment (LCA), and artificial intelligence technologies provide efficient means for evaluating and selecting pretreatment methods. This paper addresses current issues and development priorities for the achievement of the appropriate and sustainable utilization of LCB in light of evolving economic and environmentally friendly social development demands, thereby providing theoretical basis and technical guidance for improving LCB biogas production of AD systems.
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- Jing Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment, School of Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150090, China.
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Chen X, Freitas Dos Santos AC, Gutierrez DMR, Song P, Aston JE, Thompson DN, Dooley JH, Ladisch MR, Mosier NS. Effect of pelleting on the enzymatic digestibility of corn stover. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2023:129338. [PMID: 37343796 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2023.129338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/05/2023] [Revised: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 06/14/2023] [Indexed: 06/23/2023]
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Pelleting of lignocellulosic biomass to improve its transportation, storage and handling impacts subsequent processing and conversion. This work reports the role of high moisture pelleting in the enzymatic digestibility of corn stover prior to pretreatment, together with associated substrate characteristics. Pelleting increases the digestibility of unpretreated corn stover, from 8.2 to 15.5% glucan conversion, at 5% solid loading using 1 FPU Cellic® CTec2 per g solids. Compositional analysis indicates that loose and pelleted corn stover have similar non-dissolvable compositions, although their extractives are different. Enzymatic hydrolysis of corn stover after size reduction to normalize particle sizes and removal of extractives confirms that pelleting improves corn stover digestibility. Such differences may be explained by the decreased particle size, improved substrate accessibility, and hydrolysis of cross-linking structures induced by pelleting. These findings are useful for the development of processing schemes for sustainable and efficient use of lignocellulose.
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- Xueli Chen
- Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States; Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
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- Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States; Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
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- Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States; Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
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- Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States; Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
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- Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415, United States
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- Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States; Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States; Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States
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- Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering (LORRE), Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States; Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, United States.
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Characterization of a New Glucose-Tolerant GH1 β-Glycosidase from Aspergillus fumigatus with Transglycosylation Activity. Int J Mol Sci 2023; 24:ijms24054489. [PMID: 36901919 PMCID: PMC10003650 DOI: 10.3390/ijms24054489] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Revised: 02/17/2023] [Accepted: 02/20/2023] [Indexed: 03/02/2023] Open
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Concern over environmental impacts has spurred many efforts to replace fossil fuels with biofuels such as ethanol. However, for this to be possible, it is necessary to invest in other production technologies, such as second generation (2G) ethanol, in order to raise the levels of this product and meet the growing demand. Currently, this type of production is not yet economically feasible, due to the high costs of the enzyme cocktails used in saccharification stage of lignocellulosic biomass. In order to optimize these cocktails, the search for enzymes with superior activities has been the goal of several research groups. For this end, we have characterized the new β-glycosidase AfBgl1.3 from A. fumigatus after expression and purification in Pichia pastoris X-33. Structural analysis by circular dichroism revealed that increasing temperature destructured the enzyme; the apparent Tm value was 48.5 °C. The percentages of α-helix (36.3%) and β-sheet (12.4%) secondary structures at 25 °C were predicted. Biochemical characterization suggested that the optimal conditions for AfBgl1.3 were pH 6.0 and temperature of 40 °C. At 30 and 40 °C, the enzyme was stable and retained about 90% and 50% of its activity, respectively, after pre-incubation for 24 h. In addition, the enzyme was highly stable at pH between 5 and 8, retaining over 65% of its activity after pre-incubation for 48 h. AfBgl1.3 co-stimulation with 50-250 mM glucose enhanced its specific activity by 1.4-fold and revealed its high tolerance to glucose (IC50 = 2042 mM). The enzyme was active toward the substrates salicin (495.0 ± 49.0 U mg-1), pNPG (340.5 ± 18.6 U mg-1), cellobiose (89.3 ± 5.1 U mg-1), and lactose (45.1 ± 0.5 U mg-1), so it had broad specificity. The Vmax values were 656.0 ± 17.5, 706.5 ± 23.8, and 132.6 ± 7.1 U mg-1 toward p-nitrophenyl-β-D-glucopyranoside (pNPG), D-(-)-salicin, and cellobiose, respectively. AfBgl1.3 displayed transglycosylation activity, forming cellotriose from cellobiose. The addition of AfBgl1.3 as a supplement at 0.9 FPU/g of cocktail Celluclast® 1.5L increased carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) conversion to reducing sugars (g L-1) by about 26% after 12 h. Moreover, AfBgl1.3 acted synergistically with other Aspergillus fumigatus cellulases already characterized by our research group-CMC and sugarcane delignified bagasse were degraded, releasing more reducing sugars compared to the control. These results are important in the search for new cellulases and in the optimization of enzyme cocktails for saccharification.
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Sun C, Meng X, Sun F, Zhang J, Tu M, Chang JS, Reungsang A, Xia A, Ragauskas AJ. Advances and perspectives on mass transfer and enzymatic hydrolysis in the enzyme-mediated lignocellulosic biorefinery: A review. Biotechnol Adv 2023; 62:108059. [PMID: 36402253 DOI: 10.1016/j.biotechadv.2022.108059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2022] [Revised: 11/04/2022] [Accepted: 11/13/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Enzymatic hydrolysis is a critical process for the cellulase-mediated lignocellulosic biorefinery to produce sugar syrups that can be converted into a whole range of biofuels and biochemicals. Such a process operating at high-solid loadings (i.e., scarcely any free water or roughly ≥ 15% solids, w/w) is considered more economically feasible, as it can generate a high sugar concentration at low operation and capital costs. However, this approach remains restricted and incurs "high-solid effects", ultimately causing the lower hydrolysis yields with increasing solid loadings. The lack of available water leads to a highly viscous system with impaired mixing that exhibits strong transfer resistance and reaction limitation imposed on enzyme action. Evidently, high-solid enzymatic hydrolysis involves multi-scale mass transfer and multi-phase enzyme reaction, and thus requires a synergistic perspective of transfer and biotransformation to assess the interactions among water, biomass components, and cellulase enzymes. Porous particle characteristics of biomass and its interface properties determine the water form and distribution state surrounding the particles, which are summarized in this review aiming to identify the water-driven multi-scale/multi-phase bioprocesses. Further aided by the cognition of rheological behavior of biomass slurry, solute transfer theories, and enzyme kinetics, the coupling effects of flow-transfer-reaction are revealed under high-solid conditions. Based on the above basic features, this review lucidly explains the causes of high-solid hydrolysis hindrances, highlights the mismatched issues between transfer and reaction, and more importantly, presents the advanced strategies for transfer and reaction enhancements from the viewpoint of process optimization, reactor design, as well as enzyme/auxiliary additive customization.
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- Chihe Sun
- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of MOE, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Industrial Biotechnology of MOE, School of Biotechnology, Jiangnan University, Wuxi 214122, China.
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- Jiangsu Co-Innovation Center of Efficient Processing and Utilization of Forest Resources, College of Chemical Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, 159 Longpan Road, Nanjing 210037, China
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- Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, Tunghai University, Taichung 407, Taiwan
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- Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Technology, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen 40002, Thailand
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- Key Laboratory of Low-grade Energy Utilization Technologies and Systems, Chongqing University, Ministry of Education, Chongqing 400044, China
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA; Center for Renewable Carbon, Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA; Joint Institute of Biological Sciences, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831, USA.
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Water-soluble saponins accumulate in drought-stressed switchgrass and may inhibit yeast growth during bioethanol production. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS AND BIOPRODUCTS 2022; 15:116. [PMID: 36310161 PMCID: PMC9620613 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-022-02213-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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BACKGROUND Developing economically viable pathways to produce renewable energy has become an important research theme in recent years. Lignocellulosic biomass is a promising feedstock that can be converted into second-generation biofuels and bioproducts. Global warming has adversely affected climate change causing many environmental changes that have impacted earth surface temperature and rainfall patterns. Recent research has shown that environmental growth conditions altered the composition of drought-stressed switchgrass and directly influenced the extent of biomass conversion to fuels by completely inhibiting yeast growth during fermentation. Our goal in this project was to find a way to overcome the microbial inhibition and characterize specific compounds that led to this inhibition. Additionally, we also determined if these microbial inhibitors were plant-generated compounds, by-products of the pretreatment process, or a combination of both. RESULTS Switchgrass harvested in drought (2012) and non-drought (2010) years were pretreated using Ammonia Fiber Expansion (AFEX). Untreated and AFEX processed samples were then extracted using solvents (i.e., water, ethanol, and ethyl acetate) to selectively remove potential inhibitory compounds and determine whether pretreatment affects the inhibition. High solids loading enzymatic hydrolysis was performed on all samples, followed by fermentation using engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Fermentation rate, cell growth, sugar consumption, and ethanol production were used to evaluate fermentation performance. We found that water extraction of drought-year switchgrass before AFEX pretreatment reduced the inhibition of yeast fermentation. The extracts were analyzed using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) to detect compounds enriched in the extracted fractions. Saponins, a class of plant-generated triterpene or steroidal glycosides, were found to be significantly more abundant in the water extracts from drought-year (inhibitory) switchgrass. The inhibitory nature of the saponins in switchgrass hydrolysate was validated by spiking commercially available saponin standard (protodioscin) in non-inhibitory switchgrass hydrolysate harvested in normal year. CONCLUSIONS Adding a water extraction step prior to AFEX-pretreatment of drought-stressed switchgrass effectively overcame inhibition of yeast growth during bioethanol production. Saponins appear to be generated by the plant as a response to drought as they were significantly more abundant in the drought-stressed switchgrass water extracts and may contribute toward yeast inhibition in drought-stressed switchgrass hydrolysates.
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Jawad Kadhum H, Murthy GS. Novel system design for high solid lignocellulosic biomass conversion. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2022; 350:126897. [PMID: 35219787 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.126897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2021] [Revised: 02/19/2022] [Accepted: 02/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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A novel system (Oregon State University High Solids Reactor; OSU-HSR) was designed and constructed for enzymatic hydrolysis at ultrahigh solids content (40%) by promoting better mixing using low energy consumption in a horizontal reactor with a new impeller design and a controllable feeding unit. System performance was evaluated using separate hydrolysis and fermentation (SHF) and simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF) methodologies. Using the dilute acid pretreated wheat straw as the substrate in the OSU-HSR system, the highest glucose (219.7 g/L) and ethanol (127.1 g/L) concentrations were achieved with the use of the SHF method while the highest ethanol concentration using SSF method was 134.5 g/L. The SSF method increased the return on investment to 12.21% with an estimated global warming potential of 54.5 g CO2 eq/MJ Ethanol. The OSU-HSR successfully provided effective mixing and different fed-batch schemes, and can be used for efficient biochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass into bio-chemicals and biofuels.
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- Haider Jawad Kadhum
- Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States; College of Agriculture, Al-Qasim Green University, Babylon, Iraq.
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- Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, United States; Biociences and Biomedical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Indore, Indore, Madhya Pradesh 453552, India.
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Wu J, Ebadian M, Kim KH, Kim CS, Saddler J. The use of steam pretreatment to enhance pellet durability and the enzyme-mediated hydrolysis of pellets to fermentable sugars. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2022; 347:126731. [PMID: 35074465 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2022.126731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/10/2021] [Revised: 01/13/2022] [Accepted: 01/15/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Although densified wood pellets are an attractive biomass feedstock for bioenergy and biofuels production, partly due to their ease of transport, their friability and hygroscopic nature (attraction of moisture) have proven problematic in terms of storage and handling. Pre-steaming the biomass was shown to reduce the need for size reduction, significantly increasing pellet durability by relocating the plant cell wall lignin to the fibre surface and consequently enhancing binding between particles. Although steam pretreatment has been shown to facilitate enzyme-mediated hydrolysis of biomass, by increasing cellulose accessibility, drying and pelletization partially impeded enzymatic hydrolysis. However, the incorporation of alkaline deacetylation or neutral sulfonation step prior to pre-steaming was shown to mitigate many of the negative effects of drying. Although drying and pelletization did not significantly impact the redistribution of lignin, a mild mechanical refining step was shown to further enhance the hydrolysis of the cellulose component of the pelletized biomass.
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- Jie Wu
- Forest Products Biotechnology/Bioenergy Group, Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Forest Products Biotechnology/Bioenergy Group, Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Clean Energy Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Clean Energy Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul 02792, Republic of Korea
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- Forest Products Biotechnology/Bioenergy Group, Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
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Baral P, Kumar V, Agrawal D. Emerging trends in high-solids enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic feedstocks for developing an efficient and industrially deployable sugar platform. Crit Rev Biotechnol 2021; 42:873-891. [PMID: 34530648 DOI: 10.1080/07388551.2021.1973363] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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For the techno-commercial success of any lignocellulosic biorefinery, the cost-effective production of fermentable sugars for the manufacturing of bio-based products is indispensable. High-solids enzymatic saccharification (HSES) is a straightforward approach to develop an industrially deployable sugar platform. Economic incentives such as reduced capital and operational expenditure along with environmental benefits in the form of reduced effluent discharge makes this strategy more lucrative for exploitation. However, HSES suffers from the drawback of non-linear and disproportionate sugar yields with increased substrate loadings. To overcome this bottleneck, researchers tend to perform HSES at high enzyme loadings. Nonetheless, the production costs of cellulases are one of the key contributors that impair the entire process economics. This review highlights the relentless efforts made globally to attain a high-titer of sugars and their fermentation products by performing efficient HSES at low cellulase loadings. In this context, technical innovations such as advancements in new pretreatment strategies, next-generation cellulase cocktails, additives, accessory enzymes, novel reactor concepts and enzyme recycling studies are especially showcased. This review further covers new insights, learnings and prospects in the area of lignocellulosic bioprocessing.
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- Pratibha Baral
- Biochemistry and Biotechnology Area, Material Resource Efficiency Division, CSIR- Indian Institute of Petroleum, Mohkampur, India
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- School of Water, Energy and Environment, Cranfield University, Cranfield, UK
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- Biochemistry and Biotechnology Area, Material Resource Efficiency Division, CSIR- Indian Institute of Petroleum, Mohkampur, India
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Chandrasekar M, Joshi L, Krieg K, Chipkar S, Burke E, Debrauske DJ, Thelen KD, Sato TK, Ong RG. A high solids field-to-fuel research pipeline to identify interactions between feedstocks and biofuel production. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2021; 14:179. [PMID: 34507592 PMCID: PMC8431876 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-021-02033-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/14/2021] [Accepted: 08/30/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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BACKGROUND Environmental factors, such as weather extremes, have the potential to cause adverse effects on plant biomass quality and quantity. Beyond adversely affecting feedstock yield and composition, which have been extensively studied, environmental factors can have detrimental effects on saccharification and fermentation processes in biofuel production. Only a few studies have evaluated the effect of these factors on biomass deconstruction into biofuel and resulting fuel yields. This field-to-fuel evaluation of various feedstocks requires rigorous coordination of pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, and fermentation experiments. A large number of biomass samples, often in limited quantity, are needed to thoroughly understand the effect of environmental conditions on biofuel production. This requires greater processing and analytical throughput of industrially relevant, high solids loading hydrolysates for fermentation, and led to the need for a laboratory-scale high solids experimentation platform. RESULTS A field-to-fuel platform was developed to provide sufficient volumes of high solids loading enzymatic hydrolysate for fermentation. AFEX pretreatment was conducted in custom pretreatment reactors, followed by high solids enzymatic hydrolysis. To accommodate enzymatic hydrolysis of multiple samples, roller bottles were used to overcome the bottlenecks of mixing and reduced sugar yields at high solids loading, while allowing greater sample throughput than possible in bioreactors. The roller bottle method provided 42-47% greater liquefaction compared to the batch shake flask method for the same solids loading. In fermentation experiments, hydrolysates from roller bottles were fermented more rapidly, with greater xylose consumption, but lower final ethanol yields and CO2 production than hydrolysates generated with shake flasks. The entire platform was tested and was able to replicate patterns of fermentation inhibition previously observed for experiments conducted in larger-scale reactors and bioreactors, showing divergent fermentation patterns for drought and normal year switchgrass hydrolysates. CONCLUSION A pipeline of small-scale AFEX pretreatment and roller bottle enzymatic hydrolysis was able to provide adequate quantities of hydrolysate for respirometer fermentation experiments and was able to overcome hydrolysis bottlenecks at high solids loading by obtaining greater liquefaction compared to batch shake flask hydrolysis. Thus, the roller bottle method can be effectively utilized to compare divergent feedstocks and diverse process conditions.
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- Meenaa Chandrasekar
- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, USA
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- DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA.
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA.
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Recent progress in metabolic engineering of Corynebacterium glutamicum for the production of C4, C5, and C6 chemicals. KOREAN J CHEM ENG 2021. [DOI: 10.1007/s11814-021-0788-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Kalogiannis KG, Karnaouri A, Michailof C, Tzika AM, Asimakopoulou G, Topakas E, Lappas AA. OxiOrganosolv: A novel acid free oxidative organosolv fractionation for lignocellulose fine sugar streams. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 313:123599. [PMID: 32540692 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.123599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Revised: 05/25/2020] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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The valorization of lignocellulosic biomass towards the production of value-added products requires an efficient pretreatment/fractionation step. In this work we present a novel, acid-free, mildly oxidative organosolv delignification process -OxiOrganosolv- which employs oxygen gas to depolymerize and remove lignin. The results demonstrate that the OxiOrganosolv process achieved lignin removal as high as 97% in a single stage, with a variety of solvents; it was also efficient in delignifying both beechwood (hardwood) and pine (softwood), a task in which organosolv pretreatments have failed in the past. Minimal amounts of sugar degradation products were detected, while cellulose recovery was ~100% in the solid pulp. Enzymatic hydrolysis of pulps showed >80 wt% cellulose conversion to glucose. Overall, the OxiOrganosolv pretreatment has significant advantages, including high delignification efficiency of hardwood and softwood biomass, absence of acid homogeneous catalysis and all corresponding challenges involved, and close to zero losses of sugars to degradation products.
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- Konstantinos G Kalogiannis
- Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute (CPERI), CERTH, 6th Km Harilaou-Thermi Road, 57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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- Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute (CPERI), CERTH, 6th Km Harilaou-Thermi Road, 57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece; Industrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group, Biotechnology Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Polytechniou Str., Zografou Campus, Athens 15780, Greece
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- Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute (CPERI), CERTH, 6th Km Harilaou-Thermi Road, 57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute (CPERI), CERTH, 6th Km Harilaou-Thermi Road, 57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Industrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group, Biotechnology Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Polytechniou Str., Zografou Campus, Athens 15780, Greece
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- Industrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group, Biotechnology Laboratory, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Polytechniou Str., Zografou Campus, Athens 15780, Greece; Biochemical and Chemical Process Engineering, Division of Sustainable Process Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden
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- Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute (CPERI), CERTH, 6th Km Harilaou-Thermi Road, 57001 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
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Santos ACF, Ximenes E, Thompson D, Ray AE, Szeto R, Erk K, Dien BS, Ladisch MR. Effect of using a nitrogen atmosphere on enzyme hydrolysis at high corn stover loadings in an agitated reactor. Biotechnol Prog 2020; 36:e3059. [PMID: 32748574 DOI: 10.1002/btpr.3059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2020] [Revised: 07/22/2020] [Accepted: 07/31/2020] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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- Antonio Carlos Freitas Santos
- Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana USA
- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana USA
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- Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana USA
- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana USA
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- Energy and Environment Science & Technology Directorate Idaho National Laboratory Idaho Falls Idaho USA
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- Energy and Environment Science & Technology Directorate Idaho National Laboratory Idaho Falls Idaho USA
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- School of Materials Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana USA
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- School of Materials Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana USA
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- National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research ARS, USDA Peoria Illinois USA
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- Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana USA
- Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering Purdue University West Lafayette Indiana USA
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Zhang J, Wang L, Chen H. Effect of periodic high-frequency vibration with rigid spheres added on high solids enzymatic hydrolysis of steam-exploded corn straw. Process Biochem 2020. [DOI: 10.1016/j.procbio.2020.04.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Takada M, Chandra R, Wu J, Saddler JN. The influence of lignin on the effectiveness of using a chemithermomechanical pulping based process to pretreat softwood chips and pellets prior to enzymatic hydrolysis. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2020; 302:122895. [PMID: 32019706 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2020.122895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/26/2019] [Revised: 01/22/2020] [Accepted: 01/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Over the last century the pulp and paper sector has assessed various technologies to fractionate woody biomass to produce strong, bright fibers. Several of these processes have also been assessed for their potential to pretreat and fractionate biomass to enhance the subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis of the cellulosic component. Although many of these pretreatments are effective on agricultural residues, softwoods have proven more recalcitrant, primarily due to their high lignin content and structure. As delignification is too expensive to be used routinely a more economically attractive approach might be to alter the lignin. Recent work has shown that, using a modified chemithermomechanical pulping (CTMP) "front end", lignin can be modified and relocated. This significantly enhanced hemicellulose recovery and enzyme-mediated cellulose hydrolysis of woody biomass. As well as being effective on wood chips, the modified CTMP pretreatment process also enhanced the bioconversion of densified feedstocks such as pellets.
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- Masatsugu Takada
- Forest Products Biotechnology/Bioenergy Group, Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Forest Products Biotechnology/Bioenergy Group, Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Forest Products Biotechnology/Bioenergy Group, Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4, Canada
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- Forest Products Biotechnology/Bioenergy Group, Department of Wood Science, Faculty of Forestry, University of British Columbia, 2424 Main Mall, Vancouver BC V6T 1Z4, Canada.
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Lu M, Li J, Han L, Xiao W. High-solids enzymatic hydrolysis of ball-milled corn stover with reduced slurry viscosity and improved sugar yields. BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS 2020; 13:77. [PMID: 32336988 PMCID: PMC7171840 DOI: 10.1186/s13068-020-01717-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2020] [Accepted: 04/13/2020] [Indexed: 05/05/2023]
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BACKGROUND High-solids enzymatic hydrolysis has attracted increasing attentions for the production of bioethanol from lignocellulosic biomass with its advantages of high product concentration, water saving, and low energy and capital costs. However, the increase of solids content would worsen the rheological properties, resulting in heat/mass transfer limitation and higher mixing energy. To address these issues, ball milling was applied to corn stover prior to enzymatic hydrolysis, and the rheological behaviors and digestibility of ball-milled corn stover under high-solids loading were investigated. RESULTS Ball milling significantly modified the physicochemical properties of corn stover. The apparent viscosity of slurries at 30% solid loading decreased by a factor of 500 after milling for 60 min, and the yield stress was less than 10 Pa. The dramatic decrease of viscosity and yield stress enabled the hydrolysis process to be conducted in shake flask, and remained good mixing. Meanwhile, the estimated energy consumption for mixing during saccharification decreased by 400-fold compared to the untreated one. The resultant hydrolysate using 10 FPU g-1 solids was determined to contain 130.5 g L-1 fermentable sugar, and no fermentation inhibitors were detected. CONCLUSIONS The proposed ball milling pretreatment improved rheological behavior and sugar yield of high-solids corn stover slurry. Ball milling enables high-solids slurry to maintain low viscosity and yield stress while obtaining a non-toxic high-concentration fermentable syrup, which is undoubtedly of great significance for inter-unit processing, mixing and downstream process. In addition, the energy input for ball milling could be balanced by the reduced mixing energy. Our study indicates ball milling a promising pretreatment process for industrial bioethanol production.
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- Minsheng Lu
- College of Engineering, China Agricultural University (East Campus), P.O. Box 191, 17 Qing-Hua-Dong-Lu, Hai-Dian District, Beijing, 100083 People’s Republic of China
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- College of Engineering, China Agricultural University (East Campus), P.O. Box 191, 17 Qing-Hua-Dong-Lu, Hai-Dian District, Beijing, 100083 People’s Republic of China
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- College of Engineering, China Agricultural University (East Campus), P.O. Box 191, 17 Qing-Hua-Dong-Lu, Hai-Dian District, Beijing, 100083 People’s Republic of China
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- College of Engineering, China Agricultural University (East Campus), P.O. Box 191, 17 Qing-Hua-Dong-Lu, Hai-Dian District, Beijing, 100083 People’s Republic of China
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Gong C, Thomsen ST, Thygesen LG, Felby C. Effects of preheating on briquetting and subsequent hydrothermal pretreatment for enzymatic saccharification of wheat straw. Biotechnol Prog 2019; 35:e2808. [PMID: 30891956 DOI: 10.1002/btpr.2808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2018] [Revised: 03/07/2019] [Accepted: 03/14/2019] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Briquetting of plant biomass with low bulk density is an advantage for handling, transport, and storage of the material, and heating of the biomass prior to the briquetting facilitates the densification process and improves the physical properties of the briquettes. This study investigates the effects of preheating prior to briquetting of wheat straw (WS) on subsequent hydrothermal pretreatment and enzymatic conversion to fermentable sugars. WS (11% moisture content) was densified to briquettes under different conditions; without preheating or with preheating at 75 or 125°C for either 5 or 10 min. Subsequent hydrothermal pretreatment was done for both un-briquetted WS and for briquettes. Enzymatic saccharification was afterwards performed for all samples. The results showed that as expected, nonpretreated WS briquettes gave very low sugar yields (22-29% of the cellulose content), even though preheating at 125°C prior to briquetting (without pretreatment) improved sugar yields somewhat. When combined with pretreatment, briquetting with preheating showed neutral or negative effects on sugar yield. This result suggests that moderate preheating (75°C for 5 min) before briquetting improved bulk density and compressive resistance of briquettes without impeding subsequent enzymatic conversion. However, excessive preheating (75 or 125°C for 10 min) before briquetting may result in irreversible structural modifications that hinder the interaction between biomass and water during pretreatment, thereby decreasing the accessibility of cellulose to enzymatic saccharification.
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- Chunxiao Gong
- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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- Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg C, Denmark
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Liu G, Bao J. Constructing super large scale cellulosic ethanol plant by decentralizing dry acid pretreatment technology into biomass collection depots. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2019; 275:338-344. [PMID: 30597395 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2018.12.061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2018] [Revised: 12/17/2018] [Accepted: 12/18/2018] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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Commercial cellulosic ethanol plants require mature and year-round biomass feedstock supply. Decentralizing pretreatment operation from central ethanol plant into local regional biomass collection depots provides an important solution to reach this goal. In this study, we introduced a newly established pretreatment technology, dry acid pretreatment, into the decentralized pretreatment operation by its advantages on zero wastewater generation and high volumetric density. Collection radius of crop residues feedstock is extended to nearly 100 km by decentralizing dry acid pretreatment, and biorefinery scale for cellulosic ethanol production is increased to the scale of modern petroleum refining factories in the densified agricultural regions in China and USA with the minimum ethanol selling price of below $2/gal. The technology overcomes the barrier of cellulosic ethanol cost increase with increasing biomass collection range, and provides a methodology for optimal supply method of large biorefinery plants in agricultural countries.
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- Gang Liu
- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China.
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Katsimpouras C, Zacharopoulou M, Matsakas L, Rova U, Christakopoulos P, Topakas E. Sequential high gravity ethanol fermentation and anaerobic digestion of steam explosion and organosolv pretreated corn stover. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2017; 244:1129-1136. [PMID: 28869123 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.08.112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/19/2017] [Revised: 08/14/2017] [Accepted: 08/16/2017] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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The present work investigates the suitability of pretreated corn stover (CS) to serve as feedstock for high gravity (HG) ethanol production at solids-content of 24wt%. Steam explosion, with and without the addition of H2SO4, and organosolv pretreated CS samples underwent a liquefaction/saccharification step followed by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF). Maximum ethanol concentration of ca. 76g/L (78.3% ethanol yield) was obtained from steam exploded CS (SECS) with 0.2% H2SO4. Organosolv pretreated CS (OCS) also resulted in high ethanol concentration of ca. 65g/L (62.3% ethanol yield). Moreover, methane production through anaerobic digestion (AD) was conducted from fermentation residues and resulted in maximum methane yields of ca. 120 and 69mL/g volatile solids (VS) for SECS and OCS samples, respectively. The results indicated that the implementation of a liquefaction/saccharification step before SSF employing a liquefaction reactor seemed to handle HG conditions adequately.
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- Constantinos Katsimpouras
- Industrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Polytechniou Str., Zografou Campus, Athens 15780, Greece
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- Industrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Polytechniou Str., Zografou Campus, Athens 15780, Greece
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- Biochemical and Chemical Process Engineering, Division of Sustainable Process Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden
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- Biochemical and Chemical Process Engineering, Division of Sustainable Process Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden
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- Biochemical and Chemical Process Engineering, Division of Sustainable Process Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden
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- Industrial Biotechnology & Biocatalysis Group, School of Chemical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Polytechniou Str., Zografou Campus, Athens 15780, Greece; Biochemical and Chemical Process Engineering, Division of Sustainable Process Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, SE-97187 Luleå, Sweden.
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Sarks C, Jin M, Balan V, Dale BE. Fed-batch hydrolysate addition and cell separation by settling in high cell density lignocellulosic ethanol fermentations on AFEX™ corn stover in the Rapid Bioconversion with Integrated recycling Technology process. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2017; 44:1261-1272. [PMID: 28536841 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-017-1949-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/11/2016] [Accepted: 05/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The Rapid Bioconversion with Integrated recycling Technology (RaBIT) process uses enzyme and yeast recycling to improve cellulosic ethanol production economics. The previous versions of the RaBIT process exhibited decreased xylose consumption using cell recycle for a variety of different micro-organisms. Process changes were tested in an attempt to eliminate the xylose consumption decrease. Three different RaBIT process changes were evaluated in this work including (1) shortening the fermentation time, (2) fed-batch hydrolysate addition, and (3) selective cell recycling using a settling method. Shorting the RaBIT fermentation process to 11 h and introducing fed-batch hydrolysate addition eliminated any xylose consumption decrease over ten fermentation cycles; otherwise, decreased xylose consumption was apparent by the third cell recycle event. However, partial removal of yeast cells during recycle was not economical when compared to recycling all yeast cells.
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- Cory Sarks
- Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory (BCRL), Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, 3815 Technology Boulevard, Lansing, MI, 48910, USA. .,DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
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- Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory (BCRL), Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, 3815 Technology Boulevard, Lansing, MI, 48910, USA. .,DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.
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- Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory (BCRL), Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, 3815 Technology Boulevard, Lansing, MI, 48910, USA.,DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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- Biomass Conversion Research Laboratory (BCRL), Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, 3815 Technology Boulevard, Lansing, MI, 48910, USA.,DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA
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Baral NR, Shah A. Comparative techno-economic analysis of steam explosion, dilute sulfuric acid, ammonia fiber explosion and biological pretreatments of corn stover. BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY 2017; 232:331-343. [PMID: 28242390 DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2017.02.068] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2016] [Revised: 02/13/2017] [Accepted: 02/15/2017] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Pretreatment is required to destroy recalcitrant structure of lignocelluloses and then transform into fermentable sugars. This study assessed techno-economics of steam explosion, dilute sulfuric acid, ammonia fiber explosion and biological pretreatments, and identified bottlenecks and operational targets for process improvement. Techno-economic models of these pretreatment processes for a cellulosic biorefinery of 113.5 million liters butanol per year excluding fermentation and wastewater treatment sections were developed using a modelling software-SuperPro Designer. Experimental data of the selected pretreatment processes based on corn stover were gathered from recent publications, and used for this analysis. Estimated sugar production costs ($/kg) via steam explosion, dilute sulfuric acid, ammonia fiber explosion and biological methods were 0.43, 0.42, 0.65 and 1.41, respectively. The results suggest steam explosion and sulfuric acid pretreatment methods might be good alternatives at present state of technology and other pretreatment methods require research and development efforts to be competitive with these pretreatment methods.
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- Nawa Raj Baral
- Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, USA; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, The Ohio State University, Wooster, OH, USA.
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Kamm B, Leiß S, Schönicke P, Bierbaum M. Biorefining of Lignocellulosic Feedstock by a Modified Ammonia Fiber Expansion Pretreatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis for Production of Fermentable Sugars. CHEMSUSCHEM 2017; 10:48-52. [PMID: 27898203 DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201601511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Wheat straw was pretreated and afterwards enzymatically hydrolyzed using a modified ammonia fiber expansion (AFEX) process under different reaction conditions to produce fermentable sugars. Instead of liquid ammonia, aqueous ammonia (25 % w/v) was used to test its influence on the sugar concentration and yield of the sugars. It is shown that a protein extraction after the pretreatment can distinctly improve the result obtained for the enzymatic hydrolysis. This modified AFEX process using aqueous ammonia represents a simpler and less expensive variant of the AFEX process usually described in literature. Thus, the described process can be used for the primary refining of lignocellulosic feedstocks in the sense of a roadmap for biorefinery.
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- Birgit Kamm
- Research Institute Biopos e.V. and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Kantstraße 55, 14513, Teltow-Seehof, Germany
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- Biorefinery.de GmbH, Kantstraße 55, 14513, Teltow-Seehof, Germany
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- Research Institute Biopos e.V. and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Kantstraße 55, 14513, Teltow-Seehof, Germany
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- Research Institute Biopos e.V. and BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Kantstraße 55, 14513, Teltow-Seehof, Germany
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Chen HZ, Liu ZH. Enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass from low to high solids loading. Eng Life Sci 2016; 17:489-499. [PMID: 32624794 DOI: 10.1002/elsc.201600102] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2016] [Revised: 09/24/2016] [Accepted: 10/20/2016] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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Solid state enzymatic hydrolysis (SSEH) has many advantages, such as higher sugar concentration, lower operating costs, and less energy input. It should be a potential approach for the industrial application of lignocellulosic ethanol. The purpose of this work is to review the enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass from low to high solids loading and introduce its both challenges and perspectives. The limitations of SSEH, including inhibition effects, water constraint, and rheology characteristic, are summarized firstly. Various strategies for overcoming these limitations are proposed correspondingly. Fed batch process and its feeding strategy to improve the SSEH efficiency are then discussed. Finally, several intensification methods, hydrolysis reactor, and pilot- and demonstration-scale operations of SSEH are described. In-depth analysis of main limitations and development of novel intensification methods and reactors should provide an effective way to achieve large-scale implementation of SSEH.
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- Hong-Zhang Chen
- State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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- State Key Laboratory of Biochemical Engineering, Institute of Process Engineering Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China.,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing China
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Cellulase production using natural medium and its application on enzymatic hydrolysis of thermo chemically pretreated biomass. 3 Biotech 2016; 6:139. [PMID: 28330211 PMCID: PMC4919950 DOI: 10.1007/s13205-016-0465-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2016] [Accepted: 06/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Lignocellulosic bioethanol is an important renewable fuel for transportation purpose. Commercial production of lignocellulosic bioethanol mainly depends on cost of cellulase production, efficient pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis process. In the present study cellulase production from Aspergillus niger under submerged fermentation (SmF) was optimized using coconut water as natural medium. Maximum cellulase production (0.53 IU/mL) was achieved within 3 days of incubation using 8 % (w/v) waste paper and 0.07 % (w/v) glucose. The produced cellulase was applied for enzymatic hydrolysis of thermo chemically (dilute acid and alkaline) pretreated biomass (equal mixture of wheat straw and cotton stalk). Optimization of dilute acid and dilute alkaline pretreatment showed dilute alkaline pretreatment was more effective for higher reducing sugar production. Maximum reducing sugar yield of 398.0 mg/g dry biomass was obtained from dilute alkaline pretreated biomass (using 0.5 M sodium hydroxide, 8 % substrate concentration, 120 °C temperature and 20 min of incubation time). The presence of difference sugars (glucose, xylose, mannose, maltose) in the saccharified sample was confirmed by thin layer chromatographic analysis. The effectiveness of dilute alkaline pretreatment was further confirmed by biochemical composition (cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin) and structural (furrier transformed infrared spectroscopic and scanning electron microscopic) analysis. The above result can be useful for commercial production of lignocellulosic bioethanol.
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Forde GM, Rainey TJ, Speight R, Batchelor W, Pattenden LK. Matching the biomass to the bioproduct. PHYSICAL SCIENCES REVIEWS 2016. [DOI: 10.1515/psr-2016-0046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Acetic acid-catalyzed hydrothermal pretreatment of corn stover for the production of bioethanol at high-solids content. Bioprocess Biosyst Eng 2016; 39:1415-23. [DOI: 10.1007/s00449-016-1618-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/09/2016] [Accepted: 04/24/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Sundaram V, Muthukumarappan K. Impact of AFEX™ Pretreatment and Extrusion Pelleting on Pellet Physical Properties and Sugar Recovery from Corn Stover, Prairie Cord Grass, and Switchgrass. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 2016; 179:202-19. [DOI: 10.1007/s12010-016-1988-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2015] [Accepted: 01/11/2016] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Wang D, Huang H, Shen F, Yang G, Zhang Y, Deng S, Zhang J, Zeng Y, Hu Y. Effects of biomass densification on anaerobic digestion for biogas production. RSC Adv 2016. [DOI: 10.1039/c6ra17298a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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To elucidate the possibility of applying biomass densification in anaerobic digestion, pelleting and briquetting were investigated for biogas production, and anaerobic digestion using densified biomass at higher solid content was also discussed.
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- Dou Wang
- Institute of Ecological and Environmental Sciences
- Sichuan Agricultural University
- Chengdu
- P. R. China
- Rural Environment Protection Engineering & Technology Centre of Sichuan Province
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- Institute of Ecological and Environmental Sciences
- Sichuan Agricultural University
- Chengdu
- P. R. China
- Rural Environment Protection Engineering & Technology Centre of Sichuan Province
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- Institute of Ecological and Environmental Sciences
- Sichuan Agricultural University
- Chengdu
- P. R. China
- Rural Environment Protection Engineering & Technology Centre of Sichuan Province
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- Institute of Ecological and Environmental Sciences
- Sichuan Agricultural University
- Chengdu
- P. R. China
- Rural Environment Protection Engineering & Technology Centre of Sichuan Province
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- Rural Environment Protection Engineering & Technology Centre of Sichuan Province
- Sichuan Agricultural University
- Chengdu
- P. R. China
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- Institute of Ecological and Environmental Sciences
- Sichuan Agricultural University
- Chengdu
- P. R. China
- Rural Environment Protection Engineering & Technology Centre of Sichuan Province
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- Institute of Ecological and Environmental Sciences
- Sichuan Agricultural University
- Chengdu
- P. R. China
- Rural Environment Protection Engineering & Technology Centre of Sichuan Province
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- Rural Environment Protection Engineering & Technology Centre of Sichuan Province
- Sichuan Agricultural University
- Chengdu
- P. R. China
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- College of Animal Science and Technology
- Sichuan Agricultural University
- Chengdu
- P. R. China
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A Neurospora crassa ÿ-glucosidase with potential for lignocellulose hydrolysis shows strong glucose tolerance and stimulation by glucose and xylose. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molcatb.2015.09.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Recent advances in development of biomass pretreatment technologies used in biorefinery for the production of bio-based fuels, chemicals and polymers. KOREAN J CHEM ENG 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/s11814-015-0191-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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