Fuel ethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass: an overview on feedstocks and technological approaches

H Zabed, JN Sahu, AN Boyce, G Faruq - Renewable and sustainable …, 2016 - Elsevier
Bioethanol is one of the most promising and eco-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels, which is
produced from renewable sources. Although almost all the current fuel ethanol is generated …

[HTML][HTML] Potential utilization of dairy industries by-products and wastes through microbial processes: A critical review

T Sar, S Harirchi, M Ramezani, G Bulkan… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
The dairy industry generates excessive amounts of waste and by-products while it gives a
wide range of dairy products. Alternative biotechnological uses of these wastes need to be …

Production of liquid biofuels from renewable resources

PS Nigam, A Singh - Progress in energy and combustion science, 2011 - Elsevier
This article is an up-to-date review of the literature available on the subject of liquid biofuels.
In search of a suitable fuel alternative to fast depleting fossil fuel and oil reserves and in …

Hydrolysis of lignocellulosic materials for ethanol production: a review

Y Sun, J Cheng - Bioresource technology, 2002 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic biomass can be utilized to produce ethanol, a promising alternative energy
source for the limited crude oil. There are mainly two processes involved in the conversion …

Hemicellulose bioconversion

BC Saha - Journal of industrial microbiology and biotechnology, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Various agricultural residues, such as corn fiber, corn stover, wheat straw, rice straw, and
sugarcane bagasse, contain about 20–40% hemicellulose, the second most abundant …

Ethanol as an alternative fuel from agricultural, industrial and urban residues

S Prasad, A Singh, HC Joshi - Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 2007 - Elsevier
With world reserves of petroleum fast depleting, in recent years ethanol has emerged as
most important alternative resource for liquid fuel and has generated a great deal of …

Dilute acid pretreatment, enzymatic saccharification and fermentation of wheat straw to ethanol

BC Saha, LB Iten, MA Cotta, YV Wu - Process biochemistry, 2005 - Elsevier
Wheat straw consists of 48.57±0.30% cellulose and 27.70±0.12% hemicellulose on dry solid
(DS) basis and has the potential to serve as a low cost feedstock for production of ethanol …

Bacteria engineered for fuel ethanol production: current status

BS Dien, MA Cotta, TW Jeffries - Applied microbiology and biotechnology, 2003 - Springer
The lack of industrially suitable microorganisms for converting biomass into fuel ethanol has
traditionally been cited as a major technical roadblock to developing a bioethanol industry …

[PDF][PDF] Economics and environmental impact of bioethanol production technologies: an appraisal

AK Chandel, ES Chan, R Rudravaram… - … Mol Biol Rev, 2007 - academicjournals.org
Contemporary industrial developments and rapid pace of urbanization have called for an
environmentally sustainable energy sources. Ethanol made from biomass provides unique …

[PDF][PDF] Hydrolysis of cellulose and hemicellulose

CE Wyman, SR Decker, ME Himmel, JW Brady… - … : Structural diversity and …, 2005 - Citeseer
Cellulosic biomass includes agricultural (eg, corn stover and sugarcane bagasse) and
forestry (eg, sawdust, thinnings, and mill wastes) residues, portions of municipal solid waste …