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An advanced bioprocessing concept for the conversion of waste paper to ethanol

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Waste paper is a plentiful and low-cost lignocellulosic feed material that may represent the most direct way to penetrate the market with an advanced bioprocessing system. Innovative bioprocessing concepts integrated into such a system for the production of ethanol should be economically viable. Several of the proposed processing advances for such a system have only been studied on a laboratory scale, so a more thorough process development and scale-up effort will be required.

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  1. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Bioprocessing Research and Development Center, 37821-6226, Oak Ridge, TN

    Charles D. Scott, Brian H. Davison, Timothy C. Scott, Jonathan Woodward, Craig Dees & Dena S. Rothrock

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Managed by Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc. for the US Department of Energy under contract DE-AC05-84OR21400.

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Scott, C.D., Davison, B.H., Scott, T.C. et al. An advanced bioprocessing concept for the conversion of waste paper to ethanol. Appl Biochem Biotechnol 45, 641–653 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02941836

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