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Bio-ethanol--the fuel of tomorrow from the residues of today.
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This review gives an overview of the new technologies required and the advances achieved in recent years to bring lignocellulosic ethanol towards industrial production.About:
This article is published in Trends in Biotechnology.The article was published on 2006-12-01. It has received 1477 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Renewable fuels & Biofuel.read more
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Technology development for the production of biobased products from biorefinery carbohydrates—the US Department of Energy’s “Top 10” revisited
TL;DR: An updated evaluation of potential target structures using similar selection methodology, and an overview of the technology developments that led to the inclusion of a given compound are presented.
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Second generation biofuels: high-efficiency microalgae for biodiesel production
Peer M. Schenk,Skye R. Thomas-Hall,Evan Stephens,Ute C. Marx,Jan H. Mussgnug,Clemens Posten,Olaf Kruse,Ben Hankamer +7 more
TL;DR: A review of second generation biodiesel production systems using microalgae can be found in this paper, where the main advantages of second-generation microalgal systems are that they: (1) have a higher photon conversion efficiency (as evidenced by increased biomass yields per hectare): (2) can be harvested batch-wise nearly all-year-round, providing a reliable and continuous supply of oil: (3) can utilize salt and waste water streams, thereby greatly reducing freshwater use: (4) can couple CO2-neutral fuel production with CO2 sequestration: (
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Chemicals from lignin: an interplay of lignocellulose fractionation, depolymerisation, and upgrading
Wouter Schutyser,Wouter Schutyser,Tom Renders,S. Van den Bosch,S.-F. Koelewijn,Gregg T. Beckham,Bert F. Sels +6 more
TL;DR: This review provides a summary and perspective of the extensive research that has been devoted to each of these three interconnected biorefinery aspects, ranging from industrially well-established techniques to the latest cutting edge innovations.
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Hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass: A review of subcritical water technologies
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of the current status of the hydrothermal liquefaction of biomass with the aim of describing the current state of the technology, which is a medium-temperature, high-pressure thermochemical process which produces a liquid product, often called bio-oil or bi-crude.
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Progress in bioethanol processing
TL;DR: A review of the biological and thermochemical methods that could be used to produce bioethanol is made and an analysis of its global production trends is carried out in this paper, where the authors evaluate the utilization of different feedstocks (i.e., sucrose containing, starchy materials, lignocellulosic biomass) is required considering the big share of raw materials in bio-ethanol costs.
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Nathan S. Mosier,Charles E. Wyman,Bruce E. Dale,Richard T. Elander,Y. Y. Lee,Mark T. Holtzapple,Michael R. Ladisch +6 more
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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TL;DR: This article evaluated six representative analyses of fuel ethanol and found that current corn ethanol technologies are much less petroleum-intensive than gasoline but have greenhouse gas emissions similar to those of gasoline, and that large-scale use of ethanol for fuel will almost certainly require cellulosic technology.
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Ethanol Can Contribute to Energy and Environmental Goals
Alexander E. Farrell,Richard J. Plevin,Brian T. Turner,Andrew D. Jones,Michael O'Hare,Daniel M. Kammen +5 more
TL;DR: It is already clear that large-scale use of ethanol for fuel will almost certainly require cellulosic technology and new metrics that measure specific resource inputs are developed, but further research into environmental metrics is needed.
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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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