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A review of separation technologies in current and future biorefineries

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A critical review of separation methods and technologies related to biorefining including pre-extraction of hemicellulose and other value-added chemicals, detoxification of fermentation hydrolyzates, and ethanol product separation and dehydration is presented in this article.
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This article is published in Separation and Purification Technology.The article was published on 2008-08-01. It has received 811 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biorefining & Lignocellulosic biomass.

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Production of first and second generation biofuels: A comprehensive review

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of cost effective technologies and the processes to convert biomass into useful liquid bio-fuels and bioproducts, with particular focus on some biorefinery concepts based on different feedstocks aiming at the integral utilization of these feedstocks for the production of value added chemicals.
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The biorefinery concept: Using biomass instead of oil for producing energy and chemicals

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a description of the emerging biorefinery concept, in comparison with the current oil refinery, as well as discussion of the most important biomass feedstocks, conversion technologies and final products.
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Energy-efficient polymeric gas separation membranes for a sustainable future: A review

TL;DR: A review of the fundamental scientific principles underpinning the operation of polymers for gas separations, including the solution-diffusion model and various structure/property relations, is presented in this paper.
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A biorefinery processing perspective: treatment of lignocellulosic materials for the production of value-added products.

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.
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Separation technologies for the recovery and dehydration of alcohols from fermentation broths

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of energy-efficient alternative separation technologies for the production of ethanol and 1-butanol is presented, with an emphasis on the energy footprint of each approach.
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Features of promising technologies for pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass.

TL;DR: This paper reviews process parameters and their fundamental modes of action for promising pretreatment methods and concludes that pretreatment processing conditions must be tailored to the specific chemical and structural composition of the various, and variable, sources of lignocellulosic biomass.
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Principles of Adsorption and Adsorption Processes

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present correlation, analysis, and prediction of adsorption equilibria, including correlation, correlation, and analysis of adorption Equilibria.
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Fermentation of lignocellulosic hydrolysates. II: inhibitors and mechanisms of inhibition.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the generation of inhibitors during degradation of lignocellulosic materials, and the effect of these on fermentation yield and productivity, and their interaction effects are reviewed.
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Hemicellulose bioconversion

TL;DR: In this article, various pre-treatment options as well as enzymatic saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass to fermentable sugars are reviewed and the barriers, progress, and prospects of developing an environmentally benign bioprocess for large-scale conversion of hemicellulose to fuel ethanol, xylitol, 2,3-butanediol, and other value added fermentation products are highlighted.
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Fermentation of lignocellulosic hydrolysates. I: inhibition and detoxification

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of various detoxification methods on the fermentability and chemical composition of lignocellulosic hydrolysates is discussed. But, the main focus of this paper is on the effects of different batch, fed-batch, and continuous fermentation strategies in relation to inhibition of fermentation.
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