Facile pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass at high loadings in room temperature ionic liquids

Biotechnology and Bioengineering

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 2865-2875

  Wu, Hong ^a,b   Mora Pale, Mauricio ^a,b   Miao, Jianjun ^a,b   Doherty, Thomas V ^b   Linhardt, Robert J ^a,b,c   Dordick, Jonathan S ^a,b  

^a RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Research Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellulose crystallinity; Ionic liquids; Lignin; Lignocellulose; Recycling

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS LOADING; CELLULOSE CRYSTALLINITY; CHEMICAL FEEDSTOCKS; CORN STOVER; FERMENTABLE SUGARS; GLUCOSIDASE; HIGH COSTS; HIGH LOADINGS; LIGNOCELLULOSE; LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS; PRE-TREATMENT; ROOM TEMPERATURE IONIC LIQUIDS; SWITCHGRASS; TRICHODERMA REESEI; TRUE SOLVENTS;

BIOMASS; CELLULOSE; ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS; GLUCOSE; IONS; LIGNIN; LOADING; RECYCLING; VOLATILE FATTY ACIDS;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

ACETIC ACID; BETA GLUCOSIDASE; BIOFUEL; CELLULASE; CELLULOSE; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; IONIC LIQUID; LIGNIN; LIGNOCELLULOSE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SOLVENT; XYLAN ENDO 1,3 BETA XYLOSIDASE; XYLOSE;

ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CRYSTALLIZATION; HYDROLYSIS; HYPOCREA JECORINA; NONHUMAN; PANICUM VIRGATUM; ROOM TEMPERATURE;

BETA-GLUCOSIDASE; BIOMASS; CELLULASE; GLUCOSE; HYDROLYSIS; IONIC LIQUIDS; LIGNIN; POLYSACCHARIDES; SOLVENTS; TEMPERATURE; TRICHODERMA; XYLOSE; ZEA MAYS;

ACER; HYPOCREA JECORINA; PANICUM VIRGATUM; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 80054011665     PISSN: 00063592     EISSN: 10970290     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bit.23266     Document Type: Article

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