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Advanced Disintegration Technologies for Lignocellulosic Biomass for the Subsequent Conversion into Biobased Products within Integrated Bio-refineries
Overuse of fossil fuel-based energy sources poses a severe danger to both the environment and energy security. Thus, a sustainable and renewable energy source that might potentially meet future energy needs must be found. The most widely accessible, reasonably priced, and environmentally friendly feedstock that can replace fuels and chemicals generated from petroleum is lignocellulosic biomass. For the conversion of such lignocellulosic biomass into fuels, chemicals, and materials, a number of processes and concepts have been developed in recent years. These options have in common to separate the lignocellulosic components and reduce the generation of byproducts. Therefore, advanced pretreatment procedures are needed causing a controlled disturbance of the molecular structure of the lignocelluloses. These physico-chemical pretreatments might include steam explosion and hot water pretreatment, milling, CO2 explosions, microwave, extrusion, ultra-sonication methods, alkaline pretreatment, dilute acid hydrolysis, biological pretreatment, ammonia fiber explosion pretreatment, and other innovative green methods.
Editors
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Dr. Kundan Samal
Assistant Professor School of Civil Engineering KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Email: kundan.samalfce@kiit.ac.in
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Dr. Jagdeep Kumar Nayak
Department of Civil and Architecture Engineering College of Engineering Sultan Qaboos University Muscat, Oman Email: j.kumar@squ.edu.om
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Dr. Alok Kumar Patel
Biochemical Process Engineering, Division of Chemical Engineering Department of Civil, Environmental, and Natural Resources Engineering Luleå University of Technology SE-971 87 Luleå, Sweden Email: alok.kumar.patel@ltu.se
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Dr. Rojalin Sahu
Associate Professor School of Applied Science KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Email: rsahufch@kiit.ac.in
