Showing papers in "Bioresource Technology in 2010"

TL;DR: This paper reviews the most interesting technologies for ethanol production from lignocellulose and it points out several key properties that should be targeted for low-cost and advanced pretreatment processes.

TL;DR: Information on current PLA market, brief account on recent developments in the synthesis of lactic acid (monomer of PLA) through biological route, PLA synthesis, unique material properties of PLA and modification of those by making copolymers and composites, PLA degradation and its wide spectrum applications are provided.

TL;DR: The various substrates that have been explored in MFCs so far, their resulting performance, limitations as well as future potential substrates are reviewed.

TL;DR: The biochemical route, being less mature, probably has a greater cost reduction potential than the thermo-chemical route, but here a wider range of synthetic fuels can be produced to better suit heavy truck, aviation and marine applications.

TL;DR: The various hemicelluloses structures present in lignocellulose, the range of pre-treatment and hydrolysis options including the enzymatic ones, and the role of different microbial strains on process integration aiming to reach a meaningful consolidated bioprocessing are reviewed.

TL;DR: The microwave oven method was identified as the most simple, easy, and effective for lipid extraction from microalgae.

TL;DR: Although from an economical point of view synthetic chemicals are still more frequently used as repellents than essential oils, these natural products have the potential to provide efficient, and safer repellent for humans and the environment.

TL;DR: Ionic liquid pretreatment enabled a significant enhancement in the rate of enzyme hydrolysis of the cellulose component of switchgrass, with a rate increase of 16.7-fold, and a glucan yield of 96.0% obtained in 24h.

TL;DR: Wheat straw biorefinery could be the near-term solution for clean, efficient and economically-feasible production of bioethanol as well as high value-added products.

TL;DR: The results indicated that dairy manure can be converted into biochar as an effective adsorbent for application in environmental remediation.

TL;DR: Effects of nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations on growth, nutrient uptake, and lipid accumulation of a freshwater microalga Scenedesmus sp.

TL;DR: An analysis of the energy life-cycle for production of biomass using the oil-rich microalgae Nannochloropsis sp.

TL;DR: The present review discusses the available technologies for bioethanol production using rice straw and the choice of pretreatment methods plays an important role to increase the efficiency of enzymatic saccharification thereby making the whole process economically viable.

TL;DR: Recent advances in lignocellulosic biomass processing and analysis from aBiorefining perspective are presented and existing industrial biomass processing applications are discussed and examined within a biorefinery context.

TL;DR: The present study found that SPORL is the most efficient process and produced highest sugar yield, and a post-chemical pretreatment size-reduction approach is proposed to significantly reduce mechanical energy consumption.

TL;DR: High efficiency, high biosorption capacity, cost-effectiveness and renewability are the important parameters making these materials as economical alternatives for metal removal and waste remediation.

TL;DR: Preliminary growth studies indicated both fresh water and marine algae showed good growth in wastewaters, and further studies on anaerobic digestion and thermochemical liquefaction are required to make this consortium approach economically viable for producing algae biofuels.

TL;DR: This review analyzes the state-of-the-art of a specific niche in biological wastewater treatment that uses immobilized eukaryotic microalgae (and several prokaryotic photosynthetic cyanobacteria), with emphasis on removing nutrients with the support ofmicroalgae growth-promoting bacteria.

TL;DR: The pyrolysis speciation revealed the competitive nature of the primary reactions and accelerated the reactions that led to the formation of low molecular weight species from cellulose as compared to those leading to anhydro sugars.

TL;DR: Results suggested that the methylene blue adsorption on CNTs was a spontaneous and endothermic process.

TL;DR: Physico-chemical properties of the plant and animal resources that are being used as feedstocks for biodiesel production are reviewed to help meet the ever increasing demand of biodieselProduction.

TL;DR: In this article, the current and potential transformation of sugarcane bagasse (SCB) to sugar and ethanol is discussed. And stability is discussed for considering high nonlinear phenomena such as multiplicity and oscillations, which make more complex the control as a result of the inhibition problems during fermentation when furfural and formic acid from SCB hydrolysis are not absent.

TL;DR: A process combining anaerobic digestion and algae cultivation can be proposed as an effective way to convert high strength dairy manure into profitable byproducts as well as to reduce contaminations to environment.

TL;DR: The present results suggested that Scenedesmus sp.

TL;DR: The major challenges in expanding WTE incineration in China are discussed, namely, high capital and operational costs, equipment corrosion, air pollutant emissions, and fly ash disposal.

TL;DR: Adding the food waste into a manure digester at levels up to 60% of the initial volatile solids significantly increased the methane yield for 20days of digestion, showing that a hydraulic retention time of 20days could be recommended for a continuous digester.

TL;DR: Protein and lipids content analysis suggest that, from a practical point of view, immobilized systems could facilitate the separation of the biomass from the treated wastewater although in terms of nutritional value of the microalgae, immobilization systems do not represent an advantage over free-cell systems.

TL;DR: This study aim is to propose operational conditions for the dilute acid pretreatment of rice straw and to explore the effect of the structural properties of the solid residues on the enzymatic hydrolysis.

TL;DR: This paper critically reviews the existing literature in biomass-derived syngas fermentation into biofuels, specifically, different biocatalysts, factors affecting syngAs fermentation, and mass transfer, and outlines the major challenges of syng as fermentation, key performance index and technology road map, and discusses the further research needs.

TL;DR: Both cyclic voltammetry tests and batch potentiostatic experiments indicated that the capacity for extracellular electron transfer was a constitutive trait of the hydrogenophilic methanogenic culture, and in principle both electrons and carbon dioxide required for methane production could be obtained from a bioanode carrying out the oxidation of waste organic substrates.