Refining of Ethanol Biorefinery Residues to Isolate Value Added Lignins

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1632-1641

  Leskinen, Timo ^a   Kelley, Stephen S ^a   Argyropoulos, Dimitris S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biorefinery residue; Extraction; Lignin; Molecular weight; Thermal properties

Indexed keywords

ETHANOL; EXTRACTION; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; REFINING; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES;

BIOREFINERY RESIDUES; CHEMICAL PROFILES; ETHANOL EXTRACTION; EXTRACTION METHOD; ISOLATION PROCESS; REACTIVE EXTRACTION; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; STRUCTURAL FEATURE;

LIGNIN;

EID: 84936764610     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b00337     Document Type: Article

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