The concept of a biorefinery that integrates processes and technologies for biomass
conversion demands efficient utilization of all components. Hydrothermal processing is a …

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 …

The efficiency of two biomass pretreatment technologies, dilute acid hydrolysis and
dissolution in an ionic liquid, are compared in terms of delignification, saccharification …

Price hikes in conventional fuels coupled with sustainability concerns result into growing
attraction towards lignocellulosic biomass conversion to biofuels. The hydrothermal …

In cellulose-to-ethanol processes a physico-chemical pretreatment of the lignocellulosic
feedstock is a crucial prerequisite for increasing the amenability of the cellulose to enzymatic …

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 …

India is amongst the largest banana (Musa acuminata) producing countries and thus
banana pseudo stem is commonly available agricultural waste to be used as lignocellulosic …

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) have been actively studied in academia and industry for
their properties comparable to petroleum-derived plastics and high biocompatibility …

Lignocellulosic biomass is the most abundant renewable source of energy that has been
widely explored as second-generation biofuel feedstock. Despite more than four decades of …

The production of biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass is not economically viable unless it
is co-produced with other marketable high value bio-based compounds using a biorefinery …