Developing economically viable, scalable, and sustainable technologies for the conversion
of lignocellulosic polysaccharides to liquid fuels is widely seen as a centerpiece of the …

Since the industrial revolution, the rapid growth and development of global industries have
depended largely upon the utilization of coal-derived chemicals, and more recently, the …

Rapid industrialization, increasing fuel prices, exhausting fossil fuel resources and
greenhouse gas emissions are some of the factors instilling the search for alternative …

Carboxylic acids such as citric, lactic, succinic and itaconic acids are useful products and are
obtained on large scale by fermentation. This review describes the options for recovering …

Succinic acid is predicted to be one of the future platform chemicals that can be derived from
renewable resources. The improvements in biotechnological succinic acid production are …

Bio-based succinate is receiving increasing attention as a potential intermediary feedstock
for replacing a large petrochemical-based bulk chemical market. The prospective …

This work presents mechanical refining as a chemical-free pretreatment of cotton textile
waste to be converted into glucose via enzymatic hydrolysis. Both Cellic® CTec2 and CTec3 …

Bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BMED) is a new membrane separation technology
composed of electrodialysis (ED) through a bipolar membrane (BPM). Under the action of an …

Actinobacillus succinogenes is a wild-type bacterial strain, isolated from bovine rumen,
known as one of the most efficient natural producers of succinic acid. Herein, the factors …

The increased consciousness for environmental issues and the depletion of mineral oil
reserves led to the search for alternative energy sources but also for alternative biochemical …