Ionic liquid pretreatment of biomass for sugars production: Driving factors with a plausible mechanism for higher enzymatic digestibility

Carbohydrate Polymers

Volumn 149, Issue , 2016, Pages 369-381

  Raj, Tirath ^a   Gaur, Ruchi ^a   Dixit, Pooja ^a   Gupta, Ravi P ^a   Kagdiyal, V ^a   Kumar, Ravindra ^a   Tuli, Deepak K ^a  

^a INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED   (India)

Author keywords

Cellulose deformation; Enzymatic digestibility; Ionic liquid; Mechanism; Pretreatment

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CELLULOSE; DEFORMATION; LIQUIDS; MECHANISMS;

BIOMASS PRE TREATMENTS; ENZYMATIC DIGESTIBILITY; FERMENTABLE SUGARS; IONIC LIQUID PRETREATMENT; PLAUSIBLE MECHANISMS; PRE-TREATMENT; STRUCTURAL DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL TRANSFORMATION;

IONIC LIQUIDS;

BIOMASS; CELLULOSE; DEFORMATION; ENZYMATIC ACTIVITY; PRODUCTION; SUGARS;

CARBOHYDRATE; CELLULASE; GLUCOSE; IONIC LIQUID; LIGNIN; XYLAN;

BIOMASS; CHEMISTRY; FERMENTATION; HYDROLYSIS; METABOLISM; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY;

BIOMASS; CELLULASE; FERMENTATION; GLUCOSE; HYDROLYSIS; IONIC LIQUIDS; LIGNIN; SUGARS; SURFACE TENSION; VISCOSITY; XYLANS;

EID: 84976299759     PISSN: 01448617     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbpol.2016.04.129     Document Type: Article

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