Chemical Pretreatment of Sunflower Straw Biomass: The Effect on Chemical Composition and Structural Changes

Waste and Biomass Valorization

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 733-746

  Antonopoulou, Georgia ^a   Dimitrellos, George ^a   Beobide, Amaia Soto ^a   Vayenas, Dimitrios ^a,b   Lyberatos, Gerasimos ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Chemical composition; Inhibitors; IR spectroscopy; Lignocellulosic biomass; Pretreatment; Pretreatment severity; SEM images; Sunflower straw

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CELLULOSE; CORROSION INHIBITORS; DEGRADATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUBILITY; SUGARS;

CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS; PRE-TREATMENT; SEM IMAGE; SUNFLOWER STRAWS;

ALKALINITY;

ACETIC ACID; BIOMASS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HEMICELLULOSES; PRETREATMENT; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EID: 84942430530     PISSN: 18772641     EISSN: 1877265X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12649-015-9388-x     Document Type: Article

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