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Hamid Amiri
Other affiliations: Isfahan University of Technology
Bio: Hamid Amiri is an academic researcher from University of Isfahan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Clostridium acetobutylicum & Butanol. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 30 publications receiving 1006 citations. Previous affiliations of Hamid Amiri include Isfahan University of Technology.
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TL;DR: The organosolv pretreatment can be applied for efficient production of the solvents from rice straw for acetone-butanol-ethanol and ethanol production.
223 citations
TL;DR: Overall, exergoenvironmental analysis can offer more detailed information on the environmental consequences of each flow and component of bioenergy production plants, thereby diagnosing the breakthrough points for additional environmental improvements.
Abstract: Bioenergy systems are expected to expand over the coming decades due to their potential to address energy security and environmental pollution challenges. Nevertheless, any renewable energy project can only survive if approved environmentally superior to its conventional counterparts. Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an internationally standardized and validated methodology to evaluate and quantify the environmental impacts of bioenergy systems. However, due to its methodological scope, the LCA method measures only the environmental consequences of the target products of energy systems. The LCA approach can neither allocate the environmental impacts at the component level nor measure the environmental impacts of intermediate products. These challenges can be substantially resolved by systematically integrating the LCA approach with the thermodynamically-rooted exergy, offering a powerful environmental sustainability assessment tool known as “exergoenvironmental analysis“. Due to the unique methodological and conceptual characteristics of exergoenvironmental analysis in revealing the possibilities and trends for improvement, it has recently received increasing attention to mitigate the environmental impacts of bioenergy systems. Therefore, this review is aimed to thoroughly summarize and critically discuss the evaluation of sustainability aspects of bioenergy systems based on exergoenvironmental analysis. The pros and cons of using exergoenvironmental analysis in bioenergy research are also outlined to identify possible future directions for the field. Overall, exergoenvironmental analysis can offer more detailed information on the environmental consequences of each flow and component of bioenergy production plants, thereby diagnosing the breakthrough points for additional environmental improvements.
164 citations
TL;DR: Rice straw, a cheap, abundant, and mainly unused agricultural waste, is converted to furans by a dilute acid hydrolysis process and HMF and furfural production, both of which can be derived from renewable sources, are examined.
122 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a rice straw was hydrolyzed and fermented to acetone, butanol, and ethanol by Clostridium acetobutylicum bacterium using commercial cellulase and β-glucosidase.
121 citations
TL;DR: The present work is dedicated to reviewing different processes containing pretreatment and hydrolysis of hemicellulose and cellulose developed for preparing fermentable hydrolysates for biobutanol production.
114 citations
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TL;DR: Objectives of this review were to update and extend previous works on pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for biofuels and biochemicals using organic solvents, especially on ethanol, methanol, ethylene glycol, glycerol, acetic acid, and formic acid.
574 citations
TL;DR: A critical review of the first three categories of lignocelluloses pretreatment methods as well as their constraints in various applications is presented.
481 citations
TL;DR: A review article summarizes the findings of the most recent research articles with critical discussion on the factors that enhance the performance of biphasic media for 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) extraction as discussed by the authors.
450 citations
TL;DR: The present article confers about the structure of lignocellulose and how it influences enzymatic degradation emphasising the need for pre-treatments along with a comprehensive analysis and categorisation of the same.
423 citations
TL;DR: The selection of an effective and efficient pretreatment method discussed in the review and its process optimization can significantly reduce the production of inhibitory compounds and may lead to enhanced production of fermentable sugars and biochemicals.
410 citations