Timo Kikas

TL;DR: An overview of the various possibilities that can be exploited for biofuel production is provided and recommendations for increasing the production efficiency with a view to improving the overall yield and lowering the production costs are made.

TL;DR: The examples described in this paper are incorporating into a wheeled robot the upwind surges and casting used by moths in tracking pheromone plumes, extracting useful information from the response patterns of a chemical sensor array patterned after the spatially distributed chemoreceptors of some animals.

TL;DR: The discussion will cover the environmental and economic aspects of the torrefaction process and torrefied pellets, and various applications of torref reaction products.

TL;DR: In this article, different dilute acid and alkaline pretreatment methods are compared to determine the best pretreatment method to give the highest glucose and ethanol yields under the mild operating conditions, and the results indicate that rinsing the solid phase of the samples with distilled water before hydrolysis removes most of the inhibitory compounds formed during the pretreatment with dilute acids and increases fermentation efficiency by approximately 12%.

TL;DR: In this paper, the suitability of different non-food energy crops for bioethanol production was evaluated using the traditional three-step bio-ethanol process, where dilute acid was applied for biomass pre-treatment and the results showed that the glucose yield increases as the cellulose content in the biomass rises.