Evaluation of Clean fractionation pretreatment for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals from corn stover

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1364-1376

  Katahira, Rui ^a   Mittal, Ashutosh ^a   McKinney, Kellene ^a   Ciesielski, Peter N ^a   Donohoe, Bryon S ^a   Black, Stuart K ^a   Johnson, David K ^a   Biddy, Mary J ^a   Beckham, Gregg T ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Cellulose; Hemicellulose; Lignin; Organosolv

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; BIOPOLYMERS; KETONES; LIGNIN; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION;

ANALYTICAL METHOD; FRACTIONATION METHODS; HEMICELLULOSE; LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS; METHYL ISOBUTYL KETONE; ORGANOSOLV; ORGANOSOLV FRACTIONATIONS; PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS;

CELLULOSE;

CELLULOSE; HEMICELLULOSES; LIGNINS; ORGANOSOLV LIGNINS;

EID: 84990860366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/sc5001258     Document Type: Article

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