A two-stage pretreatment approach to maximise sugar yield and enhance reactive lignin recovery from poplar wood chips

Bioresource Technology

Volumn 130, Issue , 2013, Pages 570-577

  Panagiotopoulos, I A ^a   Chandra, R P ^a   Saddler, J N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Lignin; Organosolv pretreatment; Poplar; Steam pretreatment; Xylose recovery

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE; DELIGNIFICATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GLUCOSE; LOADING; RECOVERY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

ENZYME LOADING; HEMICELLULOSE SUGARS; LIGNIN RECOVERY; ORGANOSOLV; ORGANOSOLV PRETREATMENT; POPLAR; PRE-TREATMENT; SINGLE STAGE; SOLUBILISATION; STEAM PRETREATMENT; STEAM TREATMENT; SUGAR YIELD; WOOD CHIP;

LIGNIN;

CELLULOSE; GLUCOSE; HEMICELLULOSE; LIGNIN; XYLAN;

CELLULOSE; DICOTYLEDON; ENZYME ACTIVITY; LIGNIN; SOLUBILIZATION; SUGAR; WOOD;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIGNIFICATION; HYDROLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOOD;

DELIGNIFICATION; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; GLUCOSE; ORGANOSOLV LIGNINS; POPULUS; PRETREATMENT; RECOVERY; STEAM; XYLOSE;

EID: 84872381672     PISSN: 09608524     EISSN: 18732976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2012.12.093     Document Type: Article

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