Fractionation of sugar cane with hot, compressed, liquid water

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 2709-2715

  Allen, Stephen Glen ^a   Kam, Lance Cameron ^a   Zemann, Andreas Joseph ^a,b   Antal Jr , Michael Jerry ^a  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAGASSE; BIONICS; CELLULOSE; FRACTIONATION; LIGNIN; MONOMERS; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS);

HEMICELLULOSE; SOLUBILIZATION;

SUGAR CANE;

EID: 0030213932     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie950594s     Document Type: Article

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