A pretreatment with microwave irradiation was applied to enhance enzyme hydrolysis of corn straw and rice husk immersed in water, aqueous glycerol or alkaline glycerol. Native and pretreated solids underwent enzyme hydrolysis ...

The hydrodynamic cavitation comes out as a promising route to lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment releasing huge amounts of energy and inducing physical and chemical transformations, which favor lignin–carbohydrate matrix ...

Lignocellulosic biomasses such as banana pseudostem are attractive cellulose sources for bioenergy production, and for the use in biorefinery processes. However, pretreatment of lignocellulosic material is required to ...

Sugarcane culm has different types of tissue organization, and its heterogeneity can influence the bagasse quality generated in the sugar/ethanol industry. The heterogeneity of the sugarcane bagasse contributes to the ...

Due to an increased demand for more sustainable energy sources, Anaerobic Digestion (AD) of solid organic wastes such as biomass and energy crops have been gaining attention. In this study, varieties of sorghum and miscanthus ...

Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth), is considered an aquatic pest. An alternative to solve the excess water hyacinth problem is to use the biomass for second generation ethanol. This process can be divided into: collection ...

Biorefinery development by the bioconversion of lignocellulosic biomass has attracted much interest in recent years. The pretreatment process plays an important role in the commercialized production of several products, ...

In the present study, sugarcane bagasse (SB) was subjected to different pretreatments. The pretreated SB was characterized chemically and structurally and was enzymatically hydrolyzed using a commercial enzyme preparation. ...