Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8121098 | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2013 | 17 Pages |
Abstract
Pretreatment technologies are aimed to increase enzyme accessibility to biomass and yields of fermentable sugars. In general, pretreatment methods fall into four different categories including physical, chemical, physico-chemical, and biological. This paper comprehensively reviews the lignocellulosic wastes to bioethanol process with a focus on pretreatment methods, their mechanisms, advantages and disadvantages as well as the combinations of different pretreatment technologies. Moreover, the new advances in plant “omics” and genetic engineering approaches to increase cellulose composition, reduce cellulose crystallinity, produce hydrolases and protein modules disrupting plant cell wall substrates, and modify lignin structure in plants have also been expansively presented.
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Authors
Sohrab Haghighi Mood, Amir Hossein Golfeshan, Meisam Tabatabaei, Gholamreza Salehi Jouzani, Gholam Hassan Najafi, Mehdi Gholami, Mehdi Ardjmand,