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Rapid Biomass Analysis

New Tools for Compositional Analysis of Corn Stover Feedstocks and Process Intermediates from Ethanol Production

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Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals

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New, rapid, and inexpensive methods that monitor the chemical composition of corn stover and corn stover—derived samples are a key element to enabling the commercialization of processes that convert stover to fuels and chemicals. These new techniques combine near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and projection to latent structures (PLS) multivariate analysis to allow the compositional analysis of hundreds of samples in 1 d at a cost of about $10 each. The new NIR/PLS rapid analysis methods can also be used to support a variety of research projects that would have been too costly to pursue by traditional methods.

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Hames, B.R., Thomas, S.R., Sluiter, A.D., Roth, C.J., Templeton, D.W. (2003). Rapid Biomass Analysis. In: Davison, B.H., Lee, J.W., Finkelstein, M., McMillan, J.D. (eds) Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals. Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0057-4_1

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