Hemicelluloses are types of plant cell wall polysaccharides, and the world's second most
abundant renewable polymers after cellulose in lignocellulosic materials. They represent a …

For a hundred years or more, oil and natural gas has supplied fuel and other raw chemicals
to support economic growth. In the last decades their shrinking reservoirs and the increasing …

A clean, facile, and environment‐friendly catalytic method has been developed for the
conversion of furfuryl alcohol into alkyl levulinates making use of the novel solid catalyst …

Kanlow switchgrass was subjected to aqueous ethanol organosolv pretreatment, and
ethanol organosolv lignin (EOL) was recovered through precipitation of pretreatment …

Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant renewable resource for the potential
replacement of fossil fuels, though to fully realize this vision, an improved understanding of …

In biomass-to-fuel conversion, the biomass needs to be pretreated so that the cellulose in
the plant fibers is exposed for conversion of the lignocellulosic biomass to fuels and …

Samples Alamo, Kanlow, GA993, and GA992 switchgrass, Panicum virgatum L., were
partitioned into two morphological portions, leaves and internodes, and analyzed for …

Switchgrass (Alamo) was pretreated with phosphoric acid (0.75 and 1%, w/w) at three
temperatures (160, 175 and 190° C) and time (5, 7.5 and 10 min) using a steam gun. The …

With dwindling oil reserves and growing environmental concerns, researchers are looking at
producing sustainable biofuels and chemicals from renewable resources like switchgrass …

The efficiency of wet explosion applied as modified dilute acid pretreatment at previously
identified reference conditions (150° C, 0.3% H2SO4, 15min) was investigated on lucerne …