Chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass: opportunities, perspectives, and potential of biorefinery systems

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Top Value Added Chemicals from Biomass: Volume I -- Results of Screening for Potential Candidates from Sugars and Synthesis Gas

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The biorefinery concept: Using biomass instead of oil for producing energy and chemicals

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Top Value-Added Chemicals from Biomass - Volume II—Results of Screening for Potential Candidates from Biorefinery Lignin

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Microbial production of organic acids: expanding the markets

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A review of separation technologies in current and future biorefineries

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A biorefinery processing perspective: Treatment of lignocellulosic materials for the production of value-added products

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OVERVIEW AND EVALUATION OF FUEL ETHANOL FROM CELLULOSIC BIOMASS: Technology, Economics, the Environment, and Policy

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Challenges in Engineering Microbes for Biofuels Production

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A bottom-up assessment and review of global bio-energy potentials to 2050

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Logistics issues of biomass: the storage problem and the multi-biomass supply chain

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Lignocellulose conversion: an introduction to chemistry, process and economics

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Preliminary Screening — Technical and Economic Assessment of Synthesis Gas to Fuels and Chemicals with Emphasis on the Potential for Biomass-Derived Syngas

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Biorefineries–Industrial Processes and Products: Status Quo and Future Directions

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Bulk chemicals from biomass

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Global energy scenarios meeting stringent CO2 constraints—cost-effective fuel choices in the transportation sector

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Dehydration of Ethanol into Ethylene over Solid Acid Catalysts

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Biogas as a resource-efficient vehicle fuel

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Recent Progress in Synthesis of Fine and Specialty Chemicals from Wood and Other Biomass by Heterogeneous Catalytic Processes

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Large‐scale production, harvest and logistics of switchgrass (<i>Panicum virgatum L.</i>) – current technology and envisioning a mature technology

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Thermo-economic process model for thermochemical production of Synthetic Natural Gas (SNG) from lignocellulosic biomass

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Medium and Long-term Opportunities and Risks of the Biotechnological Production of Bulk Chemicals from Renewable Resources

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A Comparison between Hot Liquid Water and Steam Fractionation of Corn Fiber

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GROWING ENERGY How Biofuels Can Help End America's Oil Dependence

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The storage of logging residue for fuel

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A gasification-based biorefinery for the pulp and paper industry

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Evaluation of greenhouse gas emission risks from storage of wood residue

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Comparative analysis of efficiency, environmental impact, and process economics for mature biomass refining scenarios

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The biorenewables opportunity ‐ toward next generation process and product systems

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Assessing the date of the global oil peak: The need to use 2P reserves

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Status of green biorefining in Europe

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Green biorefinery demonstration plant in Havelland (Germany)

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Production of Biofuels and Biochemicals from Lignocellulosic Biomass: Estimation of Maximum Theoretical Yields and Efficiencies Using Matrix Algebra

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An economic approach for l-(+) lactic acid fermentation by Lactobacillus amylophilus GV6 using inexpensive carbon and nitrogen sources

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Biorefineries- A Path to Sustainability?

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Ethanol Conversion to Ethylene Using Metal-Mordenite Catalysts

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Lignocellulosic biomass: a sustainable platform for the production of bio-based chemicals and polymers

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Conversion of Biomass into Chemicals over Metal Catalysts

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Catalysis as an Enabling Science for Sustainable Polymers

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Anaerobic digestion of lignocellulosic biomass: Challenges and opportunities

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Heterogeneous catalytic oxidation for lignin valorization into valuable chemicals: what results? What limitations? What trends?

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Opportunities, recent trends and challenges of integrated biorefinery: Part I

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A synergistic biorefinery based on catalytic conversion of lignin prior to cellulose starting from lignocellulosic biomass

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Green Solvents in Carbohydrate Chemistry: From Raw Materials to Fine Chemicals

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Lignocellulosic Agricultural Waste Valorization to Obtain Valuable Products: An Overview

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Review: Oxidation of Lignin Using Ionic Liquids—An Innovative Strategy To Produce Renewable Chemicals

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Lignin extraction and upgrading using deep eutectic solvents

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Electrochemical Routes for the Valorization of Biomass-Derived Feedstocks: From Chemistry to Application

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Opportunities, recent trends and challenges of integrated biorefinery: Part II

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Circular economy aspects of lignin: Towards a lignocellulose biorefinery

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Enzymatic Synthesis of Biobased Polyesters and Polyamides

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When Will 5‐Hydroxymethylfurfural, the “Sleeping Giant” of Sustainable Chemistry, Awaken?

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Next-generation biofuels and platform biochemicals from lignocellulosic biomass

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The role of renewable chemicals and biofuels in building a bioeconomy

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Biodiesel Production From Lignocellulosic Biomass Using Oleaginous Microbes: Prospects for Integrated Biofuel Production

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Ultrasound-assisted biomass valorization to industrial interesting products: state-of-the-art, perspectives and challenges

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Polymers from sugars: cyclic monomer synthesis, ring-opening polymerisation, material properties and applications

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Deep eutectic solvents in the transformation of biomass into biofuels and fine chemicals: a review

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Technological innovation systems for biorefineries: a review of the literature

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Conversion of (Ligno)Cellulose Feeds to Isosorbide with Heteropoly Acids and Ru on Carbon

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Integrative process for sugarcane bagasse biorefinery to co-produce xylooligosaccharides and gluconic acid

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Influence of functional groups on low-temperature combustion chemistry of biofuels

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The role of pretreatment in the catalytic valorization of cellulose

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Potential of commodity chemicals to become bio‐based according to maximum yields and petrochemical prices

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Recent progress in biomass-derived carbon materials used for secondary batteries

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