Год выпуска: 2011 Автор: Yongming Zhu and Yoon Y. Lee Издательство: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Страниц: 156 ISBN: 9783845471938
Описание
The increasing public concern about environment and energy sustainability has spurred strong interest in substituting the ever-dwindling petroleum resource with the renewable lignocellulosic biomass as the feedstock for fuels and chemical production. In this book, the authors demonstrated efficient ways to utilize corn stover, one of the most promising biomass feedstocks in the US, for production of two valuable chemicals: xylooligosaccharides and lactic acid. Results of this study indicate that corn stover is indeed a very good source for a variety of chemicals. This book also describes the ways to improve the enzymatic convertibility of corn stover. For this purpose, a pretreatment method was developed that utilizes dilute sulfuric acid as the pretreatment reagent and features treatment under high-solid conditions, an important factor that favors the process economics. Detailed laboratory setup and experimental procedures are presented. This book not only provides an introductory...
