Rice straw as a feedstock for biofuels: Availability, recalcitrance, and chemical properties

Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 83-107

  Satlewal, Alok ^a,b,c   Agrawal, Ruchi ^c   Bhagia, Samarthya ^a   Das, Parthapratim ^a   Ragauskas, Arthur J ^a,b,d  

^a University of Tennessee   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c INDIAN OIL CORPORATION LIMITED   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

biochemicals; biofuel; biopower; pre treatment; recalcitrance; rice straw

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL PROPERTIES; ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS; REFINING;

BIO-POWER; BIOCHEMICALS; PRE-TREATMENT; RECALCITRANCE; RICE STRAWS;

BIOFUELS;

EID: 85031668546     PISSN: 1932104X     EISSN: 19321031     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1818     Document Type: Review

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