Wei-Chien Tu

TL;DR: This Review considers several aspects of the most prominent sustainable organicsolvents in use today, ionic liquids, deep eutectic solvents, supercritical fluids, switchable solVents, liquid polymers, and renewable solvent, giving a more complete picture of the current status of sustainable solvent research and development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors outline recent advances in pretreating lignocellulosic biomass, including using kraft pulping, organosolv, and ionic liquid methods, to produce biofuels, renewable chemicals, and biomaterials.

TL;DR: In this paper, a set of seven different lignin preparations were generated from a range of organosolv (acidic, alkaline, ammonia-treated, and dioxane-based), ionic liquid, autohydrolysis, and Kraft pretreatments of lignocelluloses.

TL;DR: The use of low-cost protic ILs in the deconstruction of lignocellulosic biomass (Ionosolv pretreatment) yielding cellulose and a purified lignin is demonstrated, demonstrating the significant potential of proticILs for use in commercial biomass pretreatment/lignin fractionation for producing biofuels or renewable chemicals and materials.

TL;DR: In this paper, an exploratory research on fermentation of Fusarium venenatum on sugars derived from lignocellulosic residues is presented, and a Techno-economic Analysis (TEA) and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) were conducted after synthesising a biorefinery process model.