Using lime pretreatment to facilitate the enzymic hydrolysis of corn stover

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 189-199

  Kaar, William E ^a   Holtzapple, Mark T ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass; Corn stover; Enzyme; Fermentation; Hydrolysis; Lime; Pretreatm ent; Saccharification

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM HYDROXIDE; CALCIUM OXIDE; CORN STOVER; ENZYME; ENZYMIC CONVERSION; ENZYMIC HYDROLYSIS; HEAT; HEATING; HYDROLYSIS; MONOSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; PRETREATMENT; SACCHARIFICATION; TEMPERATURE; WATER LOADING;

BIOCONVERSION; BIOMASS; ENZYME KINETICS; FERMENTATION; HEAT TREATMENT; HYDROLYSIS; SACCHARIFICATION; TEMPERATURE;

CORN STOVER; SLAKE LIME; THERMOCHEMICAL PRETREATMENT;

LIME;

EID: 0034032675     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0961-9534(99)00091-4     Document Type: Article

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