A Rapid and sensitive method for the evaluation of cereal grains in bioethanol production using near infrared reflectance spectroscopy

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2834-2841

  Pohl, Ferdinand ^a   Senn, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bioethanol; Biofuel crops; Fermentable substance; Near infrared spectroscopy; Partial least squares regression

Indexed keywords

BIO-ETHANOL PRODUCTION; CEREAL GRAINS; DIODE ARRAYS; ETHANOL YIELD; FERMENTABLE SUBSTANCE; FUEL ETHANOL; GERMANY; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; REFERENCE VALUES; SAMPLE SETS; SENSITIVE METHOD; SPECTRAL TRANSFORMATIONS; WHOLE GRAINS;

CROPS; ETHANOL; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); INFRARED DEVICES; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY; TEXTILES; WATER CONTENT;

BIOETHANOL;

ALCOHOL;

BIOFUEL; BIOMASS POWER; CEREAL; CROP PLANT; CROP YIELD; ENERGY CROP; ETHANOL; FERMENTATION; GROWING SEASON; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING;

ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOSYNTHESIS; CEREAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIODE; FOOD ANALYSIS; GERMANY; GRAIN; NEAR INFRARED REFLECTANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RYE; SPECTROMETER; WHEAT;

BIOFUELS; CEREALS; ETHANOL; MATERIALS TESTING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED;

GERMANY;

SECALE CEREALE; TRITICOSECALE; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 78650803176     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2010.10.058     Document Type: Article

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