Sugar yields from dilute sulfuric acid and sulfur dioxide pretreatments and subsequent enzymatic hydrolysis of switchgrass

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 102, Issue 19, 2011, Pages 8930-8938

  Shi, Jian ^a   Ebrik, Mirvat A ^a   Wyman, Charles E ^a  

^a University of California Riverside   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Dilute sulfuric acid; Pretreatment; Sulfur dioxide; Switchgrass

Indexed keywords

ACID CONCENTRATIONS; DILUTE SULFURIC ACID; DRY BIOMASS; GLUCOSE YIELDS; PRE-TREATMENT; PRE-TREATMENTS; SUGAR YIELD; SWITCHGRASS; THEORETICAL YIELD; XYLOSE YIELDS;

GLUCOSE; SULFUR; SULFUR DETERMINATION; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFURIC ACID;

ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS;

GLUCAN; GLUCOSE; SUGAR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFURIC ACID; XYLOSE;

BIOFUEL; DILUTION; GRASS; HYDROLYSIS; SUGAR; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFURIC ACID; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; HYDROLYSIS; NONHUMAN; PANICUM VIRGATUM; PERENNIAL PLANT; PLANT YIELD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

BIOFUELS; CARBOHYDRATES; CELLULASE; HYDROLYSIS; PANICUM; PLANT STEMS; SULFUR DIOXIDE; SULFURIC ACIDS;

PANICUM VIRGATUM;

EID: 80052388772     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2011.07.042     Document Type: Article

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