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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Hot water pretreatment"”.
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Performance of a multiple stage hot water pretreatment on sugarcane bagasse and its economic analysis
… bagasse. The lack of an effective and scalable pretreatment operation remains a major technical obstacle to wide spread commercialization. Combining multiple mild pretreatment methods might overcome the drawbacks of each one and achieve desirable product yields. However, combining pretreatment …
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Miscanthus conversion to ethanol: Effect of particle size and pretreatment conditions for hot water
… hydrolysis, which necessitates an expensive pretreatment in combination with a heavy enzyme dosage. The objective of this study was to develop an e fficient process for conversion of Miscanthus x giganteus to ethanol using hammer milling for reduction of particle size followed by a …
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Characterization of Cellulase Enzyme Inhibitors Formed During the Chemical Pretreatments of Rice Straw
… physico-chemical, mechanical and biological pretreatments, is often practiced such that biomass becomes available to downstream processing. Pretreatments, such as dilute acid and hot water, are effective means of biomass conversion. However, despite their processing importance, …
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Prairie cordgrass as cellulosic ethanol feedstock and chemical hydrolysis with disk milling for pretreatment
… challenges related to feedstock supply and pretreatment efficiency still exist. To provide sufficient feedstock quantity, eleven natural populations of prairie cordgrass (Spartina pectinata L.) harvested in 2011 and 2012 were evaluated as a bioethanol feedstock. After dilute acid …
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Engineering yeast to synthesize high-value natural products from plant cell wall
… Miscanthus autohydrolysates prepared by liquid hot water pretreatment. The engineered yeast strains and strategies described in this study would contribute to economically sustainable conversion of cellulosic carbon sources into valuable natural products.
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Increasing dry grind ethanol yield through fiber pretreatment after liquefaction
… of this study were to study the effects of hot water pretreatment, disk milling and cellulase dose on conversion of corn fiber into ethanol and to modify the conventional dry grind process for converting corn fiber into ethanol. Mash obtained after liquefaction was filtered and retentate …
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An Analysis Of The Impact Of Storage Temperature, Moisture Content & Duration Upon The Chemical Components & Bioprocessing Of Lignocellulosic Biomass
… and corn stover were wetted to specific water activities (aw) and stored under equivalent controlled humidities.</p> <p>Switchgrass stored at water activities of 0.65-0.85 showed no dry matter loss, irrespective of storage temperature or duration. Switchgrass stored at a water activity of …