Alkaline pretreatment of corn stover: Bench-scale fractionation and stream characterization

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1481-1491

  Karp, Eric M ^a   Donohoe, Bryon S ^a   O'Brien, Marykate H ^a   Ciesielski, Peter N ^a   Mittal, Ashutosh ^a   Biddy, Mary J ^a   Beckham, Gregg T ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Biomass; Lignin; Lignocellulose; Pretreatment; Pulping

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; BIOETHANOL; BIOFUELS; CARBOHYDRATES; CELLULOSE; ETHANOL; KETONES; LIGNIN; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ALKALINE PRETREATMENT; BIOMASS PRE TREATMENTS; CELLULOSE CRYSTALLINITY; COMPOSITIONAL ANALYSIS; LIGNOCELLULOSE; PRE-TREATMENT; PULPING; SCANNING AND TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

BIOMASS;

EID: 84901912316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc500126u     Document Type: Article

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