A highly efficient dilute alkali deacetylation and mechanical (disc) refining process for the conversion of renewable biomass to lower cost sugars

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chen, Xiaowen ^a   Shekiro, Joseph ^a   Pschorn, Thomas ^b   Sabourin, Marc ^b   Tao, Ling ^a   Elander, Rick ^a   Park, Sunkyu ^c   Jennings, Ed ^a   Nelson, Robert ^a   Trass, Olev ^d   Flanegan, Keith ^e   Wang, Wei ^a   Himmel, Michael E ^a   Johnson, David ^a   Tucker, Melvin P ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b ANDRITZ INC   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e IdeaCHEM Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Clean sugar production; Deacetylation; Disc refining; Enzymatic hydrolysis; Mechanical refining; No acid pretreatment; PFI milling; Pretreatment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902927526     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-7-98     Document Type: Article

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