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Inside Cover: Co‐solvent Pretreatment Reduces Costly Enzyme Requirements for High Sugar and Ethanol Yields from Lignocellulosic Biomass (ChemSusChem 10/2015)
Author(s) -
Nguyen Thanh Yen,
Cai Charles M.,
Kumar Rajeev,
Wyman Charles E.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201500515
Subject(s) - hemicellulose , corn stover , cellulosic ethanol , cellulose , chemistry , lignocellulosic biomass , biomass (ecology) , lignin , sugar , hydrolysis , pulp and paper industry , enzymatic hydrolysis , fermentation , bagasse , ethanol fuel , organic chemistry , agronomy , biology , engineering
The Inside Cover depicts a novel cellulosic biomass pretreatment called co‐solvent‐enhanced lignocellulosic fractionation (CELF) that uses THF to greatly enhance sugar and ethanol yields from dilute acid pretreatment of corn stover. CELF removed and recovered hemicellulose sugars and most of the lignin to produce highly digestible cellulose that was hydrolyzed to glucose using 90 % less enzymes than dilute‐acid pretreatment. Sugar yields from hemicellulose and cellulose were over 95 % of theoretical, and over 90 % ethanol yields were obtained by simultaneous saccharification and fermentation (SSF). More details can be found in the Full Paper by Nguyen et al. (DOI: 10.1002/cssc.201403045 ).