Improved bioethanol production from corn stover by alkali pretreatment with a novel pilot-scale continuous microwave irradiation reactor

Biotechnology and Bioprocess Engineering

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 493-502

  Peng, Huadong ^a   Luo, Hao ^a,b   Jin, Shengying ^c   Li, Hongqiang ^a   Xu, Jian ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROCESS ENGINEERING   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c PetroChina Planning and Engineering Institute   (China)

Author keywords

biomass pretreatment; cellulosic ethanol; continuous microwave irradiation reactor; corn stover; response surface methodology

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSIC ETHANOL; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTIES; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

BIO-ETHANOL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS BIOCONVERSIONS; BIOMASS PRE TREATMENTS; CENTRAL COMPOSITE DESIGNS; CONTINUOUS MICROWAVE IRRADIATION REACTOR; CORN STOVER; PROCESSING CAPACITIES; RESPONSE SURFACE METHODOLOGY;

BIOMASS;

ALCOHOL; ALKALI; BIOFUEL; GLUCOSE;

ALCOHOL PRODUCTION; ARTICLE; BIOFUEL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS PRODUCTION; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MAIZE; MICROWAVE IRRADIATION; NUCLEAR REACTOR; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; RESPONSE SURFACE METHOD; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLID; STRAW; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84905495512     PISSN: 12268372     EISSN: 19763816     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12257-014-0014-8     Document Type: Article

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