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Lignocellulosic biomass for bioethanol production: current perspectives, potential issues and future prospects.

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A review of the major steps involved in cellulosic-based bioethanol processes and potential issues challenging these operations is provided in this paper, where possible solutions and recoveries that could improve bioprocessing are also addressed.
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This article is published in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.The article was published on 2012-08-01. It has received 1172 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biomass & Sustainable biofuel.

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Scale-Up Hydrothermal Pretreatment of Sugarcane Bagasse and Straw for Second-Generation Ethanol Production

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CFD-PBE Modelling and Simulation of Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose in a Stirred Tank

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Nanocellulose/polymer nanocomposite membranes for pervaporation application

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Chemical Reaction Engineering

TL;DR: An overview of Chemical Reaction Engineering is presented, followed by an introduction to Reactor Design, and a discussion of the Dispersion Model.
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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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Hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials for ethanol production: a review.

TL;DR: Simultaneous saccharification and fermentation effectively removes glucose, which is an inhibitor to cellulase activity, thus increasing the yield and rate of cellulose hydrolysis, thereby increasing the cost of ethanol production from lignocellulosic materials.
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The path forward for biofuels and biomaterials

TL;DR: The integration of agroenergy crops and biorefinery manufacturing technologies offers the potential for the development of sustainable biopower and biomaterials that will lead to a new manufacturing paradigm.
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Microbial cellulose utilization: fundamentals and biotechnology.

TL;DR: A concluding discussion identifies unresolved issues pertaining to microbial cellulose utilization, suggests approaches by which such issues might be resolved, and contrasts a microbially oriented cellulose hydrolysis paradigm to the more conventional enzymatically oriented paradigm in both fundamental and applied contexts.
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