The optimal switchgrass genotype from among 250 alternatives for producing biomass for use in an enzymatic hydrolysis … conversion process to produce ethanol was determined. The consequences of the selected genotype, relative to the most common … commercially available variety, on ethanol production costs and on land requirements are determined. …

Cellulosic ethanol made from cellulosic biomass is an alternative to petroleum-based transportation fuel. The cost … difference in chemical composition between pelleted and unpelleted biomass whether they went through dilute acid pretreatment or … not. After dilute acid pretreatment, cellulose recovery of pelleted biomass was significantly higher than that of …

low lignin content. In the present study, a combination pretreatment of kenaf core using electron beam irradiation (EBI … effectiveness of EBI pretreatment, characterizations of kenaf core by a two-step process of EBI-alkaline pretreatment were also …

methods employed for pretreatment, the most efficient treatment has been revealed to be autoclaving of biomass at 121°C and 15 … from the optimized pretreatment was 397.7mg/g raw biomass (39.77g/100g raw biomass). The effects of different pretreatment … parts of the world. This study treats the subject of effective utilization of this waste biomass (which has cellulose …

Saccharomyces cerevisiae at 32°C for 24h. The best results were obtained from 15h pretreatment with [EMIM][OAc]. The ethanol yield … pretreatment of these materials with [EMIM][OAc] improved the ethanol yield to 66.8% and 81.5%, respectively. …Pretreatment with three green cellulose solvents, N-methylmorpholine-N-oxide (NMMO), 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium …

This study carried out an exergetic analysis of a proposed ethanol production scheme in which a new process – enzymatic … conventional ethanol production plant without hydrolysis, a conventional plant combined with hydrolysis and hydrolysate …. Process simulations were performed to evaluate mass and energy balances, adopting the pre-treatment of sugarcane bagasse by …

, chipboard, plywood, and wallpaper to ethanol by separate enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation (SHF). Similar to other … was obtained after pretreatment by concentrated phosphoric acid, followed by NMMO. The pretreated and hydrolyzed C …&D wastes were then successfully fermented by baker’s yeast to ethanol with 70.5–84.2% of the theoretical yields. The results …

In this study, biogas was produced from the anaerobic digestion of Sorghum bicolor stalk. Pretreatment of the biomass …, elemental and structural analyses were carried out on the biomass before and after pretreatment. The microbial composition of … important bonds in the biomass. The most suitable condition for the most efficient acidic pretreatment of the Sorghum bicolor …

In this study, biogas was produced from the anaerobic digestion of Sorghum bicolor stalk. Pretreatment of the biomass …, elemental and structural analyses were carried out on the biomass before and after pretreatment. The microbial composition of … important bonds in the biomass. The most suitable condition for the most efficient acidic pretreatment of the Sorghum bicolor …

of biomass as a vital source of renewable energy. In reducing the global dependency on fossil fuels, rice husk and rice … quality of these rice biomasses. This paper also describes the various chemical and physical pretreatment techniques that can …