Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant and renewable resource that potentially contains
large amounts of energy. It is an interesting alternative for fossil fuels, allowing the …

The successful conversion of lignocellulose into value-added products depends on
overcoming the recalcitrance of its structure towards enzymatic digestion. The highly …

Bio-ethanol, as a clean and renewable fuel, is gaining increasing attention, mostly through
its major environmental benefits. It can be produced from different kinds of renewable …

An integrated biorefinery process based on acidic leaching, alkaline treatment and
concentrated sulfuric acid hydrolysis was set up for the simultaneous recovery of lignin …

Alkaline pretreatment using NaOH, KOH, or NaOCl has been applied to various types of
waste biomass to enhance enzymatic digestibility. Pretreatment (2% NaOH, 121° C, 30 min) …

Elephant grass (Pennisetum purpureum) is a lignocellulosic material that has high potential
for ethanol production in tropical countries due to their high availability and adaptability …

The organic fraction of municipal solid waste (OFMSW) is a complex mixture of easily
digestible compounds, mainly starchy materials, and hardly digestible compounds, mainly …

A number of industries currently produce many tons of agroindustrial wastes with significant
consequences on the environment and human and animal health. In recent years …

Due to resource depletion and continued population growth further knowledge for adapting
to changes as well as for the future of the world is being explored. It has become clear that …

Using bioconversion and simultaneous value-added product generation requires
purification of the gaseous and the liquid streams before, during, and after the bioconversion …