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A review of enzymes and microbes for lignocellulosic biorefinery and the possibility of their application to consolidated bioprocessing technology.

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Recent advances in the development of microorganisms for the production of renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels, as well as ethanol, from lignocellulosic materials through consolidated bioprocessing are reviewed.
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This article is published in Bioresource Technology.The article was published on 2013-05-01. It has received 299 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lignocellulosic biomass & Biorefinery.

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Sustainable bio-ethanol production from agro-residues: A review

TL;DR: Current technologies for sustainable bioethanol production from agro-residues are discussed, which involves four processes of pre-treatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation and distillation.
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Biorefineries in circular bioeconomy: A comprehensive review

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of different biorefinery models used for various biomass feedstocks such as lignocelluloses, algae, and numerous waste-types reveals that the social-economic aspect of the industrial sector has a major influence on the full adoption ofBiorefineries in circular bioeconomy.
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Biofuel production: Challenges and opportunities

TL;DR: Future research endeavors in biofuels production should be placed on the search of novel biofuel production species, optimization and improvement of culture conditions, genetic engineering of biofuel-producing species, and effective techniques for mass cultivation of microorganisms.
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An overview of key pretreatment processes employed for bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass into biofuels and value added products

TL;DR: A number of biomass deconstruction or pretreatment processes have been used to break the structural framework of plants and depolymerize lignin, which is used for the production of biofuels and other value added products.
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Review: Biofuel production from plant and algal biomass

TL;DR: Algal biomass is attractive raw for biofuel production and does not require complex treatment methods in comparison with lignocellulose-enriched biomass, and many microalgae are mixotrophs, so they can be used as energy source and as sewage purifier simultaneously.
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Toward an aggregated understanding of enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose: noncomplexed cellulase systems.

TL;DR: It is suggested that it is timely to revisit and reinvigorate functional modeling of cellulose hydrolysis and that this would be highly beneficial if not necessary in order to bring to bear the large volume of information available on cellulase components on the primary applications that motivate interest in the subject.
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Trends in bioconversion of lignocellulose: Biofuels, platform chemicals & biorefinery concept

TL;DR: In this article, a comprehensive state of the art describing the advancement in recent pretreaments, metabolic engineering approaches with special emphasis on the latest developments in consolidated biomass processing, current global scenario of bioethanol pilot plants and biorefinery concept for the production of biofuels and bioproducts.
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Directed evolution of industrial enzymes: an update

TL;DR: The use of enzymes in industrial processes can often eliminate the use of high temperatures, organic solvents and extremes of pH, while at the same time offering increased reaction specificity, product purity and reduced environmental impact.
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Technological trends, global market, and challenges of bio-ethanol production

TL;DR: Some current and promising technologies for ethanol production are reviewed considering aspects related to the raw materials, processes, and engineered strains development.
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Recent progress in consolidated bioprocessing

TL;DR: The economic motivation for CBP is addressed, advances and remaining obstacles forCBP organism development are reviewed, and the underlying fundamentals of microbial cellulose utilization are likely to be useful in order to guide the choice and development of CBP systems.
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