Pretreatment of lodgepole pine killed by mountain pine beetle using the ethanol organosolv process: Fractionation and process optimization

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2609-2617

  Pan, Xuejun ^a,b   Xie, Dan ^a   Yu, Richard W ^b   Lam, Dexter ^b   Saddler, Jack N ^b  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDROXYMETHYLFURFURAL; ORGANOSOLV PROCESS; SURFACE METHODOLOGY;

BIOCONVERSION; ETHANOL; SUBSTRATES;

SOFTWOODS;

BIOCONVERSION; ETHANOL; SOFTWOODS; SUBSTRATES;

ETHANOL; PINUS; SUBSTRATES;

EID: 34247525078     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie061576l     Document Type: Conference Paper

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