Improved ethanol yield and reduced minimum ethanol selling price (MESP) by modifying low severity dilute acid pretreatment with deacetylation and mechanical refining: 1 Experimental

Biotechnology for Biofuels

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Chen, Xiaowen ^a   Tao, Ling ^a   Shekiro, Joseph ^a   Mohaghaghi, Ali ^a   Decker, Steve ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Smith, Holly ^a   Park, Sunkyu ^b   Himmel, Michael E ^a   Tucker, Melvin ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioethanol, pretreatment; Deacetylation; Enzymatic hydrolysis; Fermentation; Mechanical refining; Pfi mill

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027935573     PISSN: 17546834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1754-6834-5-60     Document Type: Article

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