Low temperature and long residence time AFEX pretreatment of corn stover

Bioenergy Research

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 372-379

  Bals, Bryan D ^a   Teymouri, Farzaneh ^b   Campbell, Tim ^b   Jin, Mingjie ^a   Dale, Bruce E ^a  

^a Michigan State University   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN BIOTECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

AFEX; Ammonia; Biofuel; Corn stover; Pretreatment; Regional processing

Indexed keywords

AFEX; AFEX PRETREATMENT; ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; AMMONIA FIBERS; AMMONIA LOADING; BIOREFINERIES; CORN STOVER; ECONOMIC CONDITION; ETHANOL YIELD; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HIGH-ENERGY COSTS; LOW TEMPERATURES; PRE-TREATMENT; PRE-TREATMENTS; RESIDENCE TIME; SUBSEQUENT HYDROLYSIS;

BIOFUELS; ETHANOL; LOADING; SUGARS; TEMPERATURE;

AMMONIA;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84860531033     PISSN: 19391234     EISSN: 19391242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12155-011-9140-8     Document Type: Article

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