BACKGROUND Bio-manufacturing of high-value chemicals in parallel to renewable biofuels has the potential to dramatically improve the overall economic landscape of integrated lignocellulosic biorefineries. However, this will require the generation of carbohydrate streams from lignocellulose in a form suitable for efficient microbial conversion and downstream processing appropriate to the desired...

Lignin is the second most abundant biopolymer on Earth, right after cellulose, with a highly complex chemical structure that hinders its possible utilizations. As a consequence, it is mostly burned as an inexpensive resource, generating green electricity or heat that in turn can be used for the deconstruction of biomass itself. Applications that utilize lignin in different manners are of great ...

BACKGROUND In today's consumer perception of industrial processes and food production, aspects like food quality, human health, environmental safety, and energy security have become the keywords. Therefore, much effort has been extended toward adding value to biowastes of agri-food industries through biorefinery processing approaches. This study focused, for the first time, on the valorization ...

Abstract Pulping of rice straw was studied using mild nitric acid in conditions. Spent chosen as soil nutrient rather than followed by the liquor recovery. The treated with 11.03% at 90 °C for 3 h, yielded 53.09% pulp. Nitric pulp had high residual lignin and minerals. However, further treatment 7% potassium hydroxide reduced produced kappa number 20.36. papermaking properties KOH showed better...

If lignocellulosic biomass is to become a viable competitor with fossil based resources for the production of energy and chemical products, sustainable sources of this material must be established. To address this issue an understanding about the risks affecting biomass sources and the biorefineries which they supply is crucial. In this paper, a quantitative approach using Bayesian Belief Netwo...

Aalto University, P.O. Box 11000, FI-00076 Aalto www.aalto.fi Author Hanna Hörhammer Name of the doctoral dissertation A larch biorefinery producing pulp and lactic acid Publisher School of Chemical Technology Unit Department of Forest Products Technology Series Aalto University publication series DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS 143/2014 Field of research Biorefineries Manuscript submitted 6 June 2014 D...

This study reports results of an experimental investigation peach seeds for vegetable oils and biofuel production. Dry have undergone hexane extraction the recovery oils/lipids then pyrolyzed in a laboratory reactor. Pyrolysis parametric was carried out to explore effect temperature, heating rate, carrier gas flow on products’ yield. Energetic characterization products performed assess them as ...