Chemical, physical and biological methods to convert lignocellulosic waste into value-added products. A review

S Periyasamy, V Karthik, P Senthil Kumar… - Environmental …, 2022 - Springer
Actual agricultural practices produce about 998 million tonnes of agricultural waste per year.
Therefore, converting lignocellulosic wastes into energy, chemicals, and other products is a …

A review: depolymerization of lignin to generate high-value bio-products: opportunities, challenges, and prospects

N Zhou, WPDW Thilakarathna, QS He… - Frontiers in Energy …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Lignin is identified as a promising candidate in renewable energy and bioproduct
manufacturing due to its high abundance, polymeric structure, and biochemical properties of …

Cascade utilization of lignocellulosic biomass to high-value products

Y Liu, Y Nie, X Lu, X Zhang, H He, F Pan, L Zhou… - Green …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Lignocellulosic biomass is a potential sustainable feedstock to replace fossil fuels. However,
the complex structure of biomass makes it difficult to convert into high-value products …

Lignin valorization for the production of renewable chemicals: State-of-the-art review and future prospects

L Cao, KM Iris, Y Liu, X Ruan, DCW Tsang… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
Lignin is an abundant biomass resource in aromatic structure with a low price in market,
which can serve as renewable precursors of value-added products. However, valorization …

Recent advances in removal of lignin from paper industry wastewater and its industrial applications–A review

I Haq, P Mazumder, AS Kalamdhad - Bioresource Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Pulp and paper mill wastewater contains lignin related synthetic, aromatic and chlorinated
chemical compounds. Extracting lignin from pulp and paper mill wastewater is one way of …

Lignin-based nanoparticles: a review on their preparations and applications

Q Tang, Y Qian, D Yang, X Qiu, Y Qin, M Zhou - Polymers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Lignin is the most abundant by-product from the pulp and paper industry as well as the
second most abundant natural renewable biopolymer after cellulose on earth. In recent …

Recent progress in the thermal and catalytic conversion of lignin

JM Ha, KR Hwang, YM Kim, J Jae, KH Kim… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
The issues over increases in energy demand and environmental pollution attributed to
excessive use of fossil fuel have been the driving forces of the exploration for eco-friendly …

Development of 'Lignin-First'approaches for the valorization of lignocellulosic biomass

TI Korányi, B Fridrich, A Pineda, K Barta - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Currently, valorization of lignocellulosic biomass almost exclusively focuses on the
production of pulp, paper, and bioethanol from its holocellulose constituent, while the …

Insights into the resources generation from pulp and paper industry wastes: challenges, perspectives and innovations

GK Gupta, P Shukla - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Pulp and paper industry is swiftly budding to fulfill industrial needs and with the growth of
this industry, a large amount of waste has also generated which includes biological sludge …

Supercritical fluids: a promising technique for biomass pretreatment and fractionation

ELN Escobar, TA Da Silva, CL Pirich… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Lignocellulosic biomasses are primarily composed of cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin
and these biopolymers are bonded together in a heterogeneous matrix that is highly …