Autohydrolysis of Eucalyptus globulus both with and without the addition of 5 g/L formic acid was explored for different liquid-to-solid (L/S) ratios at 150 oC for 100 min. The L/S ratio has an impact on the dissolution of wood components during prehydrolysis. The extraction yield of wood components other than lignin decreased with increasing L/S ratio, while lignin removal increased with incre...

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...

Between 1930 and 1975 biochemical and structural analysis of enzymes led to a clear set of ideas that might form a basis for detailed understanding of enzyme action. Further development required energetic and thermodynamic analysis of enzymes in an aqueous medium, beyond the computational power then available. Structural enzymology advanced in other directions, but the fundamental questions of ...

Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) is a non-wood and non-edible biorefinery resource extremely important for the development of dissolving pulp as material regenerated cellulose fiber. However, contains high amount xylan compared to hardwoods. This study aimed at finding suitable conditions producing good quality from moso stem using combination prehydrolysis non-sulfur alkali cooking elemen...

New biodegradable surface active agents were prepared by glycosidation of prehydrolysis lignin with the D-glucose using anhydrous ferric chloride as the catalyst which afforded polymeric alkyl, benzyl and aryl glucofuranoside derivatives of lignin. Moreover, a series of novel lignin-based surface active agents was obtained by subsequent Oxidation of the primary alcohol groups of u-glucose into ...

Corn stover is a promising feedstock for bioethanol production because of its abundant availability in China. To obtain higher ethanol concentration and higher ethanol yield, liquid hot water (LHW) pretreatment and fed-batch semi-simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (S-SSF) were used to enhance the enzymatic digestibility of corn stover and improve bioconversion of cellulose to ethano...