TY - JOUR
T1 - Recent advances in the pretreatment of microalgal and lignocellulosic biomass
T2 - A comprehensive review
AU - Sankaran, Revathy
AU - Parra Cruz, Ricardo Andres
AU - Pakalapati, Harshini
AU - Show, Pau Loke
AU - Ling, Tau Chuan
AU - Chen, Wei Hsin
AU - Tao, Yang
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors acknowledge the financial support of the Jiangsu Agricultural Science and Technology Innovation Fund, China (No. CX(19)3076 ); Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan, R.O.C. , under the contracts MOST 106-2923-E-006-002-MY3 and MOST 108-3116-F-006-007-CC1 for this research. This work is partially supported financially by SATU Joint Research Scheme (ST014-2018, ST022-2019), Geran Penyelidikan Universiti Malaya (UMRG Programme) – SUS (Sustainability Science) (RP025B-18SUS) and Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (Malaysia FRGS/1/2019/STG05/UNIM/02/2). This research is also supported in part by Higher Education Sprout Project, Ministry of Education to the Headquarters of University Advancement at National Cheng Kung University (NCKU).
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© 2019 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/2
Y1 - 2020/2
N2 - Microalgal and lignocellulosic biomass is the most sumptuous renewable bioresource raw material existing on earth. Recently, the bioconversion of biomass into biofuels have received significant attention replacing fossil fuels. Pretreatment of biomass is a critical process in the conversion due to the nature and structure of the biomass cell wall that is complex. Although green technologies for biofuel production are advancing, the productivity and yield from these techniques are low. Over the past years, various pretreatment techniques have been developed and successfully employed to improve the technology. This paper presents an in-depth review of the recent advancement of pretreatment methods focusing on microalgal and lignocellulosic biomass. The technological approaches involving physical, chemical, biological and other latest pretreatment methods are reviewed.
AB - Microalgal and lignocellulosic biomass is the most sumptuous renewable bioresource raw material existing on earth. Recently, the bioconversion of biomass into biofuels have received significant attention replacing fossil fuels. Pretreatment of biomass is a critical process in the conversion due to the nature and structure of the biomass cell wall that is complex. Although green technologies for biofuel production are advancing, the productivity and yield from these techniques are low. Over the past years, various pretreatment techniques have been developed and successfully employed to improve the technology. This paper presents an in-depth review of the recent advancement of pretreatment methods focusing on microalgal and lignocellulosic biomass. The technological approaches involving physical, chemical, biological and other latest pretreatment methods are reviewed.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122476
DO - 10.1016/j.biortech.2019.122476
M3 - Review article
C2 - 31810736
AN - SCOPUS:85076512239
VL - 298
JO - Agricultural Wastes
JF - Agricultural Wastes
SN - 0960-8524
M1 - 122476
ER -