Abstract
Due to economic, technical, and environmental reasons, the demand for liquid fuels all around the world is constantly increasing; bioethanol and other biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass might be one of the most important solutions for this proposal. Although biomass may be cheap, its processing costs may be high. Many technologies for converting biomass into biofuel have been developed, which include the physical pretreatment of biomass, acid or enzymatic saccharification of the pretreated biomass, and fermentation of the hexose and pentose released by hydrolysis and saccharification. In this chapter, the most frequently used and new physicochemical and biological pretreatment methods of lignocellulosic biomass are discussed.
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Woiciechowski, A. L., Karp, S. G., Sobral, K., De Carvalho, J. C., Letti, L. A. J., Soccol, V. T., & Soccol, C. R. (2014). Pretreatment strategies to enhance value addition of agro-industrial wastes. In Biotransformation of Waste Biomass into High Value Biochemicals (Vol. 9781461480051, pp. 29–49). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8005-1_2
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