Search Results - subject:"lignocellulosic"

Critical analysis of techno-economic estimates for the production cost of lignocellulosic bio-ethanol

Chovau, Simon; Degrauwe, David; Van der Bruggen, Bart - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 26 (2013) C, pp. 307-321

scale is ethically unacceptable, but lignocellulosic ethanol has potential to become an alternativfe transportation fuel … the potential of bio-ethanol from lignocellulosic sources. …

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Feedstocks, logistics and pre-treatment processes for sustainable lignocellulosic biorefineries: A comprehensive review

Kudakasseril Kurian, Jiby; Raveendran Nair, Gopu; … - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 25 (2013) C, pp. 205-219

More than a century long research and development on utilization of lignocellulosic biomass for biofuels and … make the biorefinery operations unsuccessful throughout the world. This paper discusses the important lignocellulosic … also emphasises on the importance of decentralized pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for the centralized biorefinery …

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Economic Competitiveness of Bioenergy Production and Effects on Agriculture of the Southern Region

English, Burton C.; Torre Ugarte, Daniel de la; Walsh, … - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 38 (2006) 02

The economic competitiveness of biobased industries is discussed by comparing the South relative to other regions of the United States and biomass as a feedstock source relative to fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum. An estimate of the biomass resource base is provided. Estimated changes in...

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Bioethanol production from agricultural wastes: An overview

Sarkar, Nibedita; Ghosh, Sumanta Kumar; Bannerjee, Satarupa - In: Renewable Energy 37 (2012) 1, pp. 19-27

value of food and feed. Therefore, lignocellulosic substances such as agricultural wastes are attractive feedstocks for …

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Comparison of various alkaline pretreatment methods of lignocellulosic biomass

Park, Yong Cheol; Kim, Jun Seok - In: Energy 47 (2012) 1, pp. 31-35

This study compares the efficacy of soaking and percolation pretreatments with alkaline solutions for lignocellulosic …

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Ionic liquids for biofuel production: Opportunities and challenges

Liu, Chun-Zhao; Wang, Feng; Stiles, Amanda R.; Guo, Chen - In: Applied Energy 92 (2012) C, pp. 406-414

inexpensive and abundant sources of lignocellulosic biomass, and biodiesel produced through the transesterification of vegetable … oils or animal fats are highly desirable. To efficiently produce bioethanol and biodiesel from lignocellulosic biomass and … the pretreatment, dissolution, and hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass, as well as the synthesis and energy …

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Methane production from lignocellulosic agricultural crop wastes: A review in context to second generation of biofuel production

Chandra, R.; Takeuchi, H.; Hasegawa, T. - In: Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 16 (2012) 3, pp. 1462-1476

route of biomethanation process from major lignocellulosic agricultural crop waste biomass (maize, wheat, rice and sugarcane …). Global annual approximate production of major agriculture based lignocellulosic biomass has been explored. Fundamental … along with the pretreatment requirements for lignocellulosic biomass. Methane generation potential of the major …

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Technical assessment of bioenergy recovery from cotton stalks through anaerobic digestion process and the effects of inexpensive pre-treatments

Adl, Mehrdad; Sheng, Kuichuan; Gharibi, Arash - In: Applied Energy 93 (2012) C, pp. 251-260

Methane yields from cotton stalks have been reported in the range of 0.022–0.150Nm3/kg-VS in the preceding studies. In this study, hydrothermal pre-treatment of cotton stalks was performed under atmospheric conditions prior to anaerobic digestion process through which, three agents were...

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Integrating sugar beet pulp storage, hydrolysis and fermentation for fuel ethanol production

Zheng, Yi; Yu, Chaowei; Cheng, Yu-Shen; Lee, Christopher; … - In: Applied Energy 93 (2012) C, pp. 168-175

Sugar beet pulp (SBP) as received has a fairly high moisture content of 75–85%, which makes SBP storage a challenge. Ensilage was studied over 90days and was found to effectively preserve SBP without lactic acid bacterium inoculation. Higher packing density yielded a slightly better silage...

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Impact of oleic acid on the fermentation of glucose and xylose mixtures to hydrogen and other byproducts

Chaganti, Subba Rao; Kim, Dong-Hoon; Lalman, Jerald A. - In: Renewable Energy 42 (2012) C, pp. 60-65

Using low value lignocellulosic feedstocks to produce hydrogen (H2) could be a more economically viable option in … comparison to grains derived from agriculture crops. The glucose and xylose composition of lignocellulosic feedstocks is …

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