Advances in Biomass Pretreatment and Conversion Processes
A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental and Green Processes".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 1461
Special Issue Editors
Interests: optimization of bioethanol production technology from lignocellulosic biomass and starchy raw materials (improvement of the ethanol productivity, costs reduction, energy saving); improvement of the technological methods used for the enzymatic degradation of polysaccharides; impact of raw materials contamination and quality on fermentation yield and formation of alcoholic fermentation volatile by-products (quality of raw spirit and alcoholic beverages); screening and selection strategies of filamentous fungi degrading cellulosic biomass
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Interests: bioethanol; biomass pretreatment; fermentation technology; yeast; cellulose hydrolysis; microwave-assisted pretreatment; biosynthesis; biotransformation; biofuels production; biocatalysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The main problem with the use of lignocellulosic biomass in biosynthesis processes is its effective degradation, which is related to the use of a pretreatment method that guarantees obtaining biomass susceptible to enzymatic hydrolysis. This Special Issue of Processes entitled "Advances in Biomass Pretreatment and Conversion Processes" aims to present new methods of pretreatment, especially in chemical, physical, physico-chemical and biological methods, the use of which will intensify the use of lignocellulosic biomass as a carbon source in microbiological synthesis processes. The proposed new lignocellulose pretreatment methods should, apart from increasing the susceptibility of biomass to enzymatic hydrolysis, also generate small amounts of by-products, i.e., 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and furfural, which limit the metabolic activity of microorganisms. The Special Issue will also include articles describing the industrial application of lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods.
The Special Issue welcomes papers on:
- The use of new methods of lignocellulose pretreatment, classified under chemical, physical, physicochemical and biological methods,
- The strategies used to limit the formation of pretreatment by-products, which are inhibitors of biological processes,
- Methods of biomass pretreatment in the preparation of hydrolysates used in biosynthetic processes,
- Characteristics of bioconversion processes of biomass hydrolysates obtained from new sources of lignocellulose,
- Detoxification of lignocellulosic hydrolysates,
- Characteristics of processes using lignocellulose as a carbon source in microbiological syntheses.
Dr. Grzegorz Kłosowski
Dr. Dawid Mikulski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- biomass pretreatment
- lignocellulose
- detoxification
- biosynthesis
- renewable energy
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