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The biorefinery concept: Using biomass instead of oil for producing energy and chemicals

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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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This article is published in Energy Conversion and Management.The article was published on 2010-07-01. It has received 1754 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Biorefinery & Oil refinery.

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Exploration of Transaminase Diversity for the Oxidative Conversion of Natural Amino Acids into 2-Ketoacids and High-Value Chemicals

TL;DR: The use of 2-ketoacids is very common in feeds, food additives, and pharmaceuticals, and they are valuable precursors for a plethora of chemically diverse compounds.
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Engineering Microbial Consortia for Bioconversion of Multisubstrate Biomass Streams to Biofuels

TL;DR: In this chapter, the role of microbial consortium-based biocatalysis strategies that are being developed to address issues of chemical complexity of the biomass and the associated feedstock variability are reviewed and discussed.
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Expression of Gre2p improves tolerance of engineered xylose-fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae to glycolaldehyde under xylose metabolism

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that genome integration of an extra copy of autologous GRE2 with its native promotor substantially improved the toxic tolerance of engineered xylose-fermenting S. cerevisiae and concurrently improved the ethanol fermentation profile.
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Le bioraffinage, une alternative prometteuse à la pétrochimie

TL;DR: A bioraffinerie is an installation that integrates a fois les processus de conversion and l'equipement pour produire des carburants, de l'energie and des produits a plus haute valeur ajoutee au depart de la biomasse as discussed by the authors.
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Climate change 2007: the physical science basis

TL;DR: The first volume of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report as mentioned in this paper was published in 2007 and covers several topics including the extensive range of observations now available for the atmosphere and surface, changes in sea level, assesses the paleoclimatic perspective, climate change causes both natural and anthropogenic, and climate models for projections of global climate.
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World Energy Outlook

M.W. Thring
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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 Chemistry and Technology of Petroleum

TL;DR: In this paper, Asphaltene used the data of the Data Structural Group Analysis (DSGAA) to determine the effect of various factors on the stability or instability of the Crude Oil System.
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Fast pyrolysis processes for biomass

TL;DR: Fast pyrolysis for production of liquids has developed considerably since the first experiments in the late 1970s as mentioned in this paper, leading to significant advances in process development and a wide range of reactor configurations that have been developed to meet the stringent requirements for high yields of useful liquids, for use as a fuel in boilers, engines and turbines and as a source of chemical commodities.
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