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Fungal pretreatment: An alternative in second-generation ethanol from wheat straw

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Most fungi degraded lignin with variable selectivity degrees, although only eight of them improved sugar recovery compared to untreated samples, and no close correlations were found between ligninolytic enzymes production and sugar yields.
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This article is published in Bioresource Technology.The article was published on 2011-08-01 and is currently open access. It has received 298 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Ethanol fuel & Enzymatic hydrolysis.

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Lignin valorization: improving lignin processing in the biorefinery.

TL;DR: Recent developments in genetic engineering, enhanced extraction methods, and a deeper understanding of the structure of lignin are yielding promising opportunities for efficient conversion of this renewable resource to carbon fibers, polymers, commodity chemicals, and fuels.
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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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Process Design and Economics for the Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Hydrocarbons: Dilute-Acid and Enzymatic Deconstruction of Biomass to Sugars and Biological Conversion of Sugars to Hydrocarbons

TL;DR: One potential conversion process to hydrocarbon products by way of biological conversion of lingnocellulosic-dervied sugars was described in this paper, which converted biomass to a hydrocarbon intermediate, a free fatty acid, using dilute-acid pretreatement, enzymatic saccharification, and bioconversion.
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Recent advances in second generation bioethanol production: An insight to pretreatment, saccharification and fermentation processes

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of various approaches made by prominent scientists for efficient utilization of celluloses and hemicelluloses for ethanol production and also describes recent advanced techniques utilized for the same.
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Recent advances in biological pretreatment of microalgae and lignocellulosic biomass for biofuel production

TL;DR: A comprehensive and in-depth review on BP for LCB and microalgae biomass by focusing on the relevant overviews and perspectives, technological approaches, mechanisms, influencing factors, and recent research progresses is presented.
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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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Methods for Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Efficient Hydrolysis and Biofuel Production

TL;DR: A review of various pretreatment process methods and the recent literature that has been developed can be found in this paper, where the goal of pretreatment is to make the cellulose accessible to hydrolysis for conversion to fuels.
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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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Ethanol fermentation from biomass resources: current state and prospects.

TL;DR: The prospects included are fermentation technology converting xylose to ethanol, cellulase enzyme utilized in the hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials, immobilization of the microorganism in large systems, simultaneous saccharification and fermentation, and sugar conversion into ethanol.
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