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Current Trends in Pretreatment Technologies for Bioethanol Production: Biorefinery Concept

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Bioethanol Production

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The call for an alternative and clean energy has grown as fossil sources have been depleted and energy needs have increased. The use of readily available lignocellulosic biomass for creating cost-effective and environmentally beneficial large-scale biorefinery applications has given this field a much-needed boost. Pretreatment is an important step in converting biomass into high-value products like sugars and biofuels. To overcome the recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass and accelerate its decomposition into individual units—like, cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin-different pretreatment techniques are used. Traditional pretreatment procedures are unsuitable for industrial scale-up due to their lack of sustainability and practicability. Milling, microwave, extrusion, ammonia fiber explosion, solvents, and other selected physical and chemical pretreatment techniques are included in this paper.

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Aggarwal, N.K., Kumar, N., Mittal, M. (2022). Current Trends in Pretreatment Technologies for Bioethanol Production: Biorefinery Concept. In: Bioethanol Production. Green Chemistry and Sustainable Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05091-6_3

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