Impact of Dilute Sulfuric Acid, Ammonium Hydroxide, and Ionic Liquid Pretreatments on the Fractionation and Characterization of Engineered Switchgrass

Bioenergy Research

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2017, Pages 1079-1093

  Liu, Enshi ^a   Das, Lalitendu ^a   Zhao, Bingyu ^b   Crocker, Mark ^c   Shi, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Genetic modification; Lignin; Pretreatment; Switchgrass

Indexed keywords

BIOFUELS; BRIDGES; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FEEDSTOCKS; IONIC LIQUIDS; LIGNIN; PLANTS (BOTANY); SULFURIC ACID;

AQUEOUS IONIC LIQUIDS; COMPOSITIONAL CHANGES; CONVERSION TECHNOLOGY; GENETIC MODIFICATIONS; LIGNIN MOLECULAR WEIGHTS; PLANT CHARACTERISTICS; PRE-TREATMENT; SWITCHGRASS;

AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE;

AMMONIUM HYDROXIDE; CALORIMETRY; FRACTIONATION; PRETREATMENT; SULFURIC ACID;

EID: 85028362699     PISSN: 19391234     EISSN: 19391242     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12155-017-9868-x     Document Type: Article

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