Production of ethanol from wet oxidised wheat straw by Thermoanaerobacter mathranii

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 3-9

  Ahring, B K ^a   Licht, D ^a   Schmidt, A S ^a   Sommer, P ^a   Thomsen, A B ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

D xylose; Furfural formation; Hemicellulose hydrolysate; Pretreatment; Thermoanaerobacter mathranii; Wet oxidation

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; CELL CULTURE; CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; ENZYMES; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; FURFURAL; HYDROLYSIS; OXIDATION; PRESSURE EFFECTS; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; XYLOSE;

HEMICELLULOSE; SODIUM CARBONATE; WET OXIDATION; XYLANASE;

STRAW;

ALCOHOL; FURFURAL; HEMICELLULOSE; OXYGEN; SODIUM CARBONATE; SUGAR; WATER; XYLOSE;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; FERMENTATION; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAW; TEMPERATURE; WHEAT;

THERMOANAEROBACTER MATHRANII;

EID: 0033119786     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-8524(98)00077-7     Document Type: Article

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