Hydrothermal pretreatment technologies for lignocellulosic biomass: A review of steam explosion and subcritical water hydrolysis

TR Sarker, F Pattnaik, S Nanda, AK Dalai, V Meda… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass enhances the conversion efficiency to produce
biofuels and value-added chemicals, which have the potential to replace fossil fuels …

Recent advances in commercial biorefineries for lignocellulosic ethanol production: Current status, challenges and future perspectives

T Raj, K Chandrasekhar, AN Kumar, JR Banu… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
Cellulosic ethanol production has received global attention to use as transportation fuels
with gasoline blending virtue of carbon benefits and decarbonization. However, due to …

Recycling of cathode material from spent lithium-ion batteries: Challenges and future perspectives

T Raj, K Chandrasekhar, AN Kumar, P Sharma… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
The intrinsic advancement of lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) for application in electric vehicles
(EVs), portable electronic devices, and energy-storage devices has led to an increase in the …

Natural deep eutectic solvents for lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment: recent developments, challenges and novel opportunities

A Satlewal, R Agrawal, S Bhagia, J Sangoro… - Biotechnology …, 2018 - Elsevier
Conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to fuels and chemicals has attracted immense
research and development around the world. Lowering recalcitrance of biomass in a cost …

Low temperature ionic liquid pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass to enhance bioethanol yield

R Alayoubi, N Mehmood, E Husson, A Kouzayha… - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Among pretreatments existing to overcome the recalcitrance of the lignocellulosic biomass,
imidazolium-based ionic liquids (ILs) are gaining interest to make cellulose more accessible …

Synthesis of γ-valerolactone (GVL) and their applications for lignocellulosic deconstruction for sustainable green biorefineries

T Raj, K Chandrasekhar, R Banu, JJ Yoon, G Kumar… - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic fractionation is highly desirable for the efficient transformation of polymeric
sugars into renewable fuels, chemicals, and materials. Thus, γ-valerolactone (GVL) has …

Cascading of engineered bioenergy plants and fungi sustainable for low-cost bioethanol and high-value biomaterials under green-like biomass processing

Y Wang, P Liu, G Zhang, Q Yang, J Lu, T Xia… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Plant cell walls contain the most abundant sustainable biomass resource for biofuels and
biomaterials on the earth. However, lignocellulose recalcitrance generally requires a costly …

Pretreatment of wheat straw using basic ethanolamine-based deep eutectic solvents for improving enzymatic hydrolysis

Z Zhao, X Chen, MF Ali, AA Abdeltawab… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
A series of ethanolamine based deep eutectic solvents (DESs), which have strong basicity,
were firstly applied in wheat straw pretreatment. Typically, choline chloride …

Application of ionic liquid and alkali pretreatment for enhancing saccharification of sunflower stalk biomass for potential biofuel-ethanol production

P Nargotra, V Sharma, M Gupta, S Kour, BK Bajaj - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Biorefining of lignocellulosic biomass to fuels/chemicals has recently gained immense
research momentum. Current study reports sequential pretreatment of sunflower stalk (SFS) …

[HTML][HTML] Ionic liquids and deep eutectic solvents for the recovery of phenolic compounds: effect of ionic liquids structure and process parameters

AS Khan, TH Ibrahim, NA Jabbar, MI Khamis… - RSC …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Water pollution is a severe and challenging issue threatening the sustainable development
of human civilization. Besides other pollutants, waste fluid streams contain phenolic …