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Kenji Sakai
Researcher at Kyushu University
Publications - 147
Citations - 4119
Kenji Sakai is an academic researcher from Kyushu University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fermentation & Lactic acid. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 139 publications receiving 3512 citations. Previous affiliations of Kenji Sakai include Kyoto University & Oita University.
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Evaluation of pretreatment with Pleurotus ostreatus for enzymatic hydrolysis of rice straw.
Masayuki Taniguchi,Hiroyuki Suzuki,Daisuke Watanabe,Kenji Sakai,Kazuhiro Hoshino,Takaaki Tanaka +5 more
TL;DR: The SEM observations showed that the increase in susceptibility of rice straw to enzymatic hydrolysis by pretreatment with P. ostreatus is caused by partial degradation of the lignin seal.
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Production of D-lactic acid from defatted rice bran by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation.
TL;DR: Production of d-lactic acid from rice bran, one of the most abundant agricultural by-products in Japan, is studied and the yield based on the amount of sugars soluble after 36-h hydrolysis of the bran by amylase and cellulase was 78%.
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Importance of the methanogenic archaea populations in anaerobic wastewater treatments
Meisam Tabatabaei,Raha Abdul Rahim,Norhani Abdullah,André-Denis G. Wright,Yoshihito Shirai,Kenji Sakai,Alawi Sulaiman,Mohd Ali Hassan +7 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the importance of the microbial population, with a focus on the methanogenic archaea, on the anaerobic fermentative biomethane production from biomass is summarized.
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Purification and Characterization of Three Thermostable Endochitinases of a Noble Bacillus Strain, MH-1, Isolated from Chitin-Containing Compost
TL;DR: Other properties of the strain, such as the formation of endospores, the presence of meso-diaminopimelic acid in the cell wall, the percent G+C of DNA, and the partial 16S ribosomal DNA sequence indicated that strain MH-1 should belong to the genus Bacillus.
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Making plastics from garbage : a novel process for poly-L-lactate production from municipal food waste
TL;DR: A novel recycling system for municipal food waste that combines fermentation and chemical processes to produce high‐quality poly‐L‐lactate (PLLA) biodegradable plastics and its physical properties were comparable to those of PLLA generated from commercially available.