Utilization of agricultural and forest industry waste and residues in natural fiber-polymer composites: A review

T Väisänen, A Haapala, R Lappalainen, L Tomppo - Waste management, 2016 - Elsevier
Natural fiber-polymer composites (NFPCs) are becoming increasingly utilized in a wide
variety of applications because they represent an ecological and inexpensive alternative to …

Augmented digestion of lignocellulose by steam explosion, acid and alkaline pretreatment methods: a review

J Singh, M Suhag, A Dhaka - Carbohydrate polymers, 2015 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic materials can be explored as one of the sustainable substrates for
bioethanol production through microbial intervention as they are abundant, cheap and …

Current pretreatment technologies for the development of cellulosic ethanol and biorefineries

MHL Silveira, ARC Morais, AM da Costa Lopes… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Lignocellulosic materials, such as forest, agriculture, and agroindustrial residues, are among
the most important resources for biorefineries to provide fuels, chemicals, and materials in …

Levulinic acid production from renewable waste resources: Bottlenecks, potential remedies, advancements and applications

A Morone, M Apte, RA Pandey - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
The rise in fuel and oil prices has driven the hunt for alternative renewable resources for
production of chemical intermediates or biofuels since they provide a sustainable solution to …

Visualizing chemical functionality in plant cell walls

Y Zeng, ME Himmel, SY Ding - Biotechnology for biofuels, 2017 - Springer
Understanding plant cell wall cross-linking chemistry and polymeric architecture is key to the
efficient utilization of biomass in all prospects from rational genetic modification to …

Genetic modification: a tool for enhancing beta-glucosidase production for biofuel application

RR Singhania, AK Patel, A Pandey… - Bioresource …, 2017 - Elsevier
Beta-glucosidase (BGL) is a rate-limiting enzyme for cellulose hydrolysis as it acts in the
final step of lignocellulosic biomass conversion to convert cellobiose into glucose, the final …

Effects of pre-treatment technologies on dark fermentative biohydrogen production: a review

MAZ Bundhoo, R Mohee, MA Hassan - Journal of environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Biohydrogen production from dark fermentation of lignocellulosic materials represents a
huge potential in terms of renewable energy exploitation. However, the low hydrogen yield …

Biomass processing into ethanol: pretreatment, enzymatic hydrolysis, fermentation, rheology, and mixing

B Volynets, F Ein-Mozaffari, Y Dahman - Green Processing and …, 2017 - degruyter.com
Alternate energy resources need to be developed to amend for depleting fossil fuel
reserves. Lignocellulosic biomass is a globally available renewable feedstock that contains …

Characterization of mechanical pulverization/phosphoric acid pretreatment of corn stover for enzymatic hydrolysis

H Yu, W Xiao, L Han, G Huang - Bioresource Technology, 2019 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic biomass from corn stover holds promise as a raw material for the production
of alternative energy to replace fossil fuels. In this study, structural properties of corn stover …

Lignocellulosic biobutanol production: gridlocks and potential remedies

A Morone, RA Pandey - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2014 - Elsevier
A spike in greenhouse gas emissions due to burning of fossil fuels and issues over energy
security and its cost have obligated to identify the alternatives to petroleum fuels currently …