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Bioethanol production from agricultural wastes: An overview

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In this article, a review of available technologies for bioethanol production from agricultural wastes is discussed, which can increase concentrations of fermentable sugars after enzymatic saccharification, thereby improving the efficiency of the whole process.
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This article is published in Renewable Energy.The article was published on 2012-01-01. It has received 1432 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lignocellulosic biomass & Biofuel.

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Draft genome of Streptomyces sp. strain 130 and functional analysis of extracellular enzyme producing genes.

TL;DR: The study of reported genome sequence will help to identify gene sequence of characterized and uncharacterized extracellular enzyme producing genes, which may have huge applications at industrial scale.
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Microorganism for Bioconversion of Sugar Hydrolysates into Lipids

TL;DR: Metabolic and genetic engineering and further other genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics tools still need to be further developed to provide more useful information and new ways on enhancing lipid production in oleaginous microorganisms, optimizing fatty acid profiles, enhancing lipid accumulation, and improving the use of low-cost raw materials as lignocellulosic hydrolysates.
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Immersed ozonation of agro-wastes as an effective pretreatment method in bioethanol production

TL;DR: In this article, a unique water/ozone reactor was designed and constructed to demonstrate three pretreatment processes of oat straw: submerged ozonation in water, low temperature (40°C) diluted sulphuric acid (DSA), and room temperature diluted sulphuralic acid /ozone mixture (SOM).
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Anaerobic Biodegradation of Wheat Straw Lignin: The Influence of Wet Explosion Pretreatment

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of wet explosion pretreatment for anaerobic digestion of wheat straw lignin under mesophilic (37 °C) conditions was examined, and it was found that increased severity of the pretreatment was found to enhance the degradation rate.
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Life cycle assessment of bioethanol from corn stover from soil phytoremediation

TL;DR: In this paper , the potential environmental impacts of bioethanol production from corn stover obtained from phytoremediation were evaluated by comparing four different acids (Sulfuric, Nitric, Hydrochloric and Acetic acids) to perform the biomass pre-treatment.
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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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Pretreatment technologies for an efficient bioethanol production process based on enzymatic hydrolysis: A review

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.
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Pretreatment of lignocellulosic wastes to improve ethanol and biogas production: a review.

TL;DR: Effective parameters in pretreatment of lignocelluloses, such as crystallinity, accessible surface area, and protection by lignin and hemicellulose are described first, and several pretreatment methods are discussed and their effects on improvement in ethanol and/or biogas production are described.
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Global potential bioethanol production from wasted crops and crop residues

TL;DR: In this article, the global annual potential bioethanol production from the major crops, corn, barley, oat, rice, wheat, sorghum, and sugar cane, is estimated.
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Trends in biotechnological production of fuel ethanol from different feedstocks.

TL;DR: The different technologies for producing fuel ethanol from sucrose-containing feedstocks (mainly sugar cane, starchy materials and lignocellulosic biomass) are described along with the major research trends for improving them.
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