Sue E. Nokes

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a consolidated source of information on studies using high-solids loadings in enzymatic hydrolysis, including a brief discussion of the limitations, such as a lack of available water, difficulty with mixing and handling, insufficient mass and heat transfer, and increased concentration of inhibitors, associated with the use of high solids.

TL;DR: A consolidated review of studies using a high‐solids pretreatment step in the conversion process of lignocellulose conversion processes, including descriptions and findings of pretreatment studies performed at high solids, the latest reactor designs developed for pretreatment at bench‐ and pilot‐scales to address some of the limitations, and high‐ solvent pretreatment operations that have been scaled‐up and incorporated into demonstration facilities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a relatively simple dynamic model based on microbial process kinetics has been developed for aerobic composting, where differential equations describing microbial, substrate, and oxygen concentrations, as well as moisture and temperature profiles have been derived as a function of vessel size and aeration rate.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared traditional submerged fermentation (SmF) and solid state cultivation (SSC) for cellulase enzyme production and found that the SSC method may be a more economical method of cellulase production, thereby reducing bio-ethanol production costs.

TL;DR: Shifts in product selectivity toward ethanol are consistent with previous observations of hydrostatic pressure effects in batch cultures and highlight the utility of continuous culture experiments for the quantification of the complex role of dissolved gas and pressure effects on metabolic activity.