Trehalose was pretreated by microwave heating with dilute acid to improve glucose yield and hydrogen production during dark-fermentation. An optimal glucose yield of 0.95 ± 0.08 g/g-trehalose was obtained when trehalose was pretreated by microwave heating with 1% dilute H2SO4 for 25 min at...

Water hyacinth, as waste biomass, can potentially replace fossil fuels and address pressing issues of energy shortage and serious environmental pollution. In this study, microwave-assisted dilute acid pretreatment was proposed to enhance the enzymatic saccharification of water hyacinth for...

Fermentative hydrogen production from biomass wastes is a promising technology combining waste treatment and clean fuel production. Biomass wastes have various types and components, while the fundamental fermentation reactions involve monosaccharides and amino acids. In this study, typical...

To improve the lipid accumulation of diatom cells, Nitzschia sp. was mutated by 60Co-γ-ray irradiation and cultivated with high salinity. The biomass and lipid yields of Nitzschia sp. mutated by 60Co-γ-ray irradiation at 900 Gy were increased by 53.8% and 28.1%, respectively. The lipid...

An increased energy recovery efficiency can be obtained from biomass waste due to coupling hydrothermal carbonation (HTC) with anaerobic digestion (AD). This study focused on optimizing the total energy yield (TEY) from sewage sludge (SS) and pinewood sawdust (PS) in co-HTC-AD coupling process,...