Pretreatment processes for lignocellulosic biomass conversion to biofuels and bioproducts

PR Seidl, AK Goulart - Current Opinion in Green and Sustainable …, 2016 - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic materials, such as forestry, agricultural and agroindustrial residues, are
among the most important sources of biomass for the production of fuels, chemicals and …

Sugarcane processing for ethanol and sugar in Brazil

MO de Souza Dias, R Maciel Filho… - Environmental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Sugarcane has been used as feedstock for production of ethanol on a large scale basis in
Brazil for over three decades, where most of the sugarcane mills produce sugar, ethanol and …

Review of design works for the conversion of sugarcane to first and second-generation ethanol and electricity

R Bechara, A Gomez, V Saint-Antonin… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
The conversion of sugarcane, the world's largest crop, to energy vectors, namely first and
second-generation ethanol and electricity, is an ongoing scientific endeavor. This …

Comparative analysis of key technologies for cellulosic ethanol production from Brazilian sugarcane bagasse at a commercial scale

AK Chandel, JQ Albarelli, DT Santos… - Biofuels, bioproducts …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Biorefineries can upgrade waste lignocellulosic biomass (LB) into soluble (C5 and C6)
sugars that can be fermented into second‐generation (2G) ethanol‐based biofuels and a …

Reduction of process steam demand and water-usage through heat integration in sugar and ethanol production from sugarcane–Evaluation of different plant …

EA Pina, R Palacios-Bereche, MF Chavez-Rodriguez… - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The sugarcane industry represents one of the most important economic activities in Brazil
producing sugar and ethanol for the internal and external markets. There are also plants …

Exergy assessment and techno-economic optimization of bioethanol production routes

PAS Ortiz, F Marechal, S de Oliveira Junior - Fuel, 2020 - Elsevier
Currently, electricity generation and second-generation ethanol production from
lignocellulosic feedstocks represent technological alternatives in the bioenergy sector …

Ethanol from residual biomass of banana harvest and commercialization: A three-waste simultaneous fermentation approach and a logistic-economic assessment of …

PZ Uchôa, RCT Porto, R Battisti, C Marangoni… - Industrial Crops and …, 2021 - Elsevier
This work performs the ethanol production by a fermentation approach based on three
banana residues simultaneously (banana pulp and peels, and banana pseudostem) in the …

Multi-objective optimization of a sugarcane biorefinery for integrated ethanol and methanol production

JQ Albarelli, S Onorati, P Caliandro, E Peduzzi… - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The present study evaluates a sugarcane biorefinery producing ethanol through juice
fermentation and methanol via gasification of sugarcane lignocellulosic residues and liquid …

Ethanol production from sugarcane straw using different configurations of fermentation and techno-economical evaluation of the best schemes

L Mesa, Y Martínez, AC de Armas, E González - Renewable Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
This work analyzed different processes of ethanol fermentation from pretreated sugarcane
straw. The conversion process, addressing enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation of C5 and …

Strategies to meet the global demand for natural food colorant bixin: A multidisciplinary approach

L Kapoor, S Ramamoorthy - Journal of Biotechnology, 2021 - Elsevier
Bixin is an apocarotenoid derived from Bixa orellana L. well known as a food colorant along
with its numerous industrial and therapeutic applications. With the current surge in usage of …