Improving Sugar Yields and Reducing Enzyme Loadings in the Deacetylation and Mechanical Refining (DMR) Process through Multistage Disk and Szego Refining and Corresponding Techno-Economic Analysis

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 324-333

  Chen, Xiaowen ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Ciesielski, Peter ^a   Trass, Olev ^b   Park, Sunkyu ^c   Tao, Ling ^a   Tucker, Melvin P ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alkaline pretreatment; Biorefinery; Deacetylation; Disk refining; Ethanol; Mechanical refining; Sugar; Szego milling; Techno economic analysis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLATION; ALKALINITY; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DIESEL PROPULSION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS; ENZYMES; ETHANOL; MILLING (MACHINING); REFINING; SUGARS;

ALKALINE PRETREATMENT; BIOREFINERIES; DEACETYLATION; DISK REFINING; MECHANICAL REFINING; TECHNO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS;

SUGAR REFINING;

EID: 84953254767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.5b01242     Document Type: Article

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