Fundamental features of microbial cellulose utilization are examined at successively higher
levels of aggregation encompassing the structure and composition of cellulosic biomass …

Lactic acid is an industrially important product with a large and rapidly expanding market
due to its attractive and valuable multi-function properties. The economics of lactic acid …

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 …

In recent years, growing attention has been devoted to the conversion of biomass into fuel
ethanol, considered the cleanest liquid fuel alternative to fossil fuels. Significant advances …

With industrial development growing rapidly, there is a need for environmentally sustainable
energy sources. Bioethanol (ethanol from biomass) is an attractive, sustainable energy …

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 …

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 …

Ethanol has been utilized as a fuel source in the United States since the turn of the century.
However, it has repeatedly faced significant commercial viability obstacles relative to …

Production of bioethanol from forest and agricultural products requires a fermenting
organism that converts all types of sugars in the raw material to ethanol in high yield and …

Cellulose was extracted at a yield of 59.8% from jute fibres based on the formic
acid/peroxyformic acid process at an atmospheric pressure. The amounts of dissolved lignin …