BACKGROUND Despite the recognition that feedstock composition influences biomass conversion efficiency, limited information exists as to how bioenergy crops with reduced recalcitrance can improve the economics and sustainability of cellulosic fuel conversion platforms. We have compared the bioenergy potential-estimated as total glucose productivity per hectare (TGP)-of maize cultivars contrasti...

BACKGROUND The bioconversion of cellulose into simple sugars or chemicals has attracted extensive attention in recent decades. The crystal allomorphs of cellulose are key factor affecting cellulose saccharification. However, due to the influence of lignin, hemicelluloses, and different characterization methods in the literature, the effect of cellulose allomorphs on cellulose saccharification i...

BACKGROUND Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant and inexpensive resource for biofuel production. Alongside its biotechnological conversion, pretreatment is essential to enable efficient enzymatic hydrolysis by making cellulose susceptible to cellulases. Wet oxidation of biomass, such as acetone/water oxidation, that employs hot acetone, water, and oxygen, has been found to be an attractive pr...

BACKGROUND In nature, termites can be considered as a model biological system for biofuel research based on their remarkable efficiency for lignocellulosic biomass conversion. Redox enzymes are of interest in second-generation ethanol production because they promote synergic enzymatic activity with classical hydrolases for lignocellulose saccharification and inactivate fermentation inhibitory c...

Abstract In this work, hydrothermal treatment was assessed for the fractionation of industrial Eucalyptus globulus bark residue (EBR) to obtain biofuels and value-added compounds (such as oligosaccharides phenolic compounds) in separated streams. Hydrothermal evaluated under non-isothermal regimen range maximum temperature (Tmax) 177–228 °C or severities (S0) between 2.76 4.25. The highest conc...

Abstract Background Woody plants with high glucose content are alternative bioresources for the production of biofuels and biochemicals. Various pretreatment methods may be used to reduce effects retardation factors such as lignin interference cellulose structural recalcitrance on degradation lignocellulose material woody plants. Results A hydrogen peroxide-acetic acid (HPAC) was several types ...

Commonly, the agricultural waste, i.e. lignocellulosic biomass is disposed through combustion causing air pollution with production of PM2.5 and PM10 particles. However, it has been found that these biomasses can be used as source for biofuels other valuable biochemicals. Though deconstruction challenging due to its complex structure. In this study, rice straw (RS) was pretreated using potassiu...

Lignin is one of the important components lignocellulosic cell walls, which endows plant walls with rigidity and strength protects them from microbial invasion. The presence lignin thought to hinder conversion biomass bioenergy, so understanding enzyme-lignin interactions very in order reduce inhibition improve hydrolysis yields. Conversion raw materials into bioethanol divided pretreatment, en...