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Beyond sugar and ethanol: The future of sugarcane biorefineries in Brazil

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Environment Friendly Pretreatment Approaches for the Bioconversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass into Biofuels and Value-Added Products

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A review on recycling techniques for bioethanol production from lignocellulosic biomass

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An overview of sustainable approaches for bioenergy production from agro-industrial wastes

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Recent Updates on the Conversion of Pineapple Waste (Ananas comosus) to Value-Added Products, Future Perspectives and Challenges

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Trends and advances in sustainable bioethanol production technologies from first to fourth generation: A critical review

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A Comprehensive Review of Feedstocks as Sustainable Substrates for Next-Generation Biofuels

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A Review of Current and Emerging Production Technologies for Biomass-Derived Sustainable Aviation Fuels

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Heterogeneous photocatalytic conversion of biomass to biofuels: A review

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Innovations in bioethanol production: A comprehensive review of feedstock generations and technology advances

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A panoramic view of technological landscape for bioethanol production from various generations of feedstocks

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Feasibility of agriculture biomass power generation in Morocco: Techno-economic analysis.

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Biomass to Energy — an Analysis of Current Technologies, Prospects, and Challenges

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Bioethanol and biodiesel blended fuels — Feasibility analysis of biofuel feedstocks in Bangladesh

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Recent Progress and Future Perspectives for Zero Agriculture Waste Technologies: Pineapple Waste as a Case Study

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Integrated biorefinery approaches for the industrialization of cellulosic ethanol fuel

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Second-generation biofuel production from the organic fraction of municipal solid waste

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The bacterial phylum Planctomycetes as novel source for bioactive small molecules

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Sustainable synergy: unleashing the potential of biomass in integrated biorefineries

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Valorization of spent mushroom substrate for low-carbon biofuel production: Recent advances and developments

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Production of biofuels from soybean straw and hull hydrolysates obtained by subcritical water hydrolysis

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A Life Cycle Assessment of Bioethanol Production from Sugarcane Bagasse Using the Simulation of a Thermochemical (Gasification) Conversion Process: Insights from a Systematic Literature Review and a Case Study

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Life cycle assessment for bioethanol production from whole plant cassava by integrated process

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Sustainable bioconversion of potato peel wastes into ethanol and biogas using organosolv pretreatment

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A critical assessment on scalable technologies using high solids loadings in lignocellulose biorefinery: challenges and solutions

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Third-generation bioethanol and L-lactic acid production from red macroalgae cellulosic residue: Prospects of Industry 5.0 algae

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Economic Aspects and Sustainability of Ethanol Production—A Systematic Literature Review

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Comparative Review on the Production and Purification of Bioethanol from Biomass: A Focus on Corn

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Sustainable bioethanol production from first- and second-generation sugar-based feedstocks: Advanced bibliometric analysis

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Past, Present, and Future Perspectives on Whey as a Promising Feedstock for Bioethanol Production by Yeast

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Technical Aspects of Biofuel Production from Different Sources in Malaysia—A Review

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Enzyme mimics in-focus: Redefining the catalytic attributes of artificial enzymes for renewable energy production

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Bioethanol, internal combustion engines and the development of zero-waste biorefineries: an approach towards sustainable motor spirit

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Composition, Physicochemical Properties, and Uses of Acorn Starch

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Co-pyrolysis of plastic waste and macroalgae Ulva lactuca, a sustainable valorization approach towards the production of bio-oil and biochar

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A review on techno-economic assessment of Spirulina for sustainable nutraceutical, medicinal, environmental, and bioenergy applications

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The prospect of fruit wastes in bioethanol production: A review

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A new insight into integrated first and second-generation bioethanol production from sugarcane

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Techno-economic feasibility and exergy analysis of bioethanol production from waste

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High-Titer Bioethanol Production from Steam-Exploded Corn Stover Using an Engineering Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strain with High Inhibitor Tolerance

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Utilization of bamboo biomass as a biofuels feedstocks: Process optimization with yeast immobilization and the sequential fermentation of glucose and xylose

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Perspectives and Progress in Bioethanol Processing and Social Economic Impacts

Yaverino-Gutiérrez, M. A., Wong, A. C., Ibarra-Muñoz, L. A., Chávez, A. C. F., Sosa-Martínez, J. D., Tagle-Pedroza, A. S., Hernández‐Beltrán, J. U., Sánchez-Muñoz, S., Santos, J. C. F. S., da Silva, S. S., et al. (2024) · Sustainability · doi:10.3390/su16020608 · Cited by 33

Biorefinery development for the conversion of softwood residues into sustainable aviation fuel: Implications from life cycle assessment and energetic-exergetic analyses

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Selective HMF synthesis from glucose via microwave-assisted metal chloride catalysis

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Sequential fed batch extractive fermentation for enhanced bioethanol production using recycled Spathaspora passalidarum and mixed sugar composition

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Performance analysis of support vector machine, Gaussian Process Regression, sequential quadratic programming algorithms in modeling hydrogen-rich syngas production from catalyzed co-gasification of biomass wastes from oil palm

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Valorizing spent mushroom substrate into syngas by the thermo-chemical process

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A SWOT-AHP analysis on biodiesel as an alternative future marine fuel

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High starch duckweed biomass production and its highly-efficient conversion to bioethanol

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Highly active PdNi bimetallic nanocubes electrocatalysts for the ethylene glycol electro-oxidation in alkaline medium

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Integrating 1G with 2G Bioethanol Production by Using Distillers’ Dried Grains with Solubles (DDGS) as the Feedstock for Lignocellulolytic Enzyme Production

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Transition metals promoting Mg-Al mixed oxides for conversion of ethanol to butanol and other valuable products: Reaction pathways

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Developing pretreatment methods to promote the production of biopolymer and bioethanol from residual algal biomass (RAB)

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A highly efficient and stable solar energy-driven device using lignocellulosic biomass Juncus effusus for the recovery of ethanol–water mixture

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Green industrial policies and domestic production of biofuels: an econometric analysis of OECD countries

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Utilization of bioresources for high-value bioproducts production: Sustainability and perspectives in circular bioeconomy

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Roles and impacts of bioethanol and biodiesel on climate change mitigation

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Process consolidation approaches for cellulosic ethanol production

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Reusing the acetone-butanol-ethanol separated broth as the lignocellulose pretreatment liquor for fresh corn stalk biorefinery

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Combination of simultaneous saccharification and fermentation of corn stover with consolidated bioprocessing of cassava starch enhances lipid production by the amylolytic oleaginous yeast Lipomyces starkeyi

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Effects of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) on lipid production of the aerial microalga Coccomyxa sp. KGU-D001 under liquid- and aerial-phase conditions

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Optimal fed-batch bioreactor operating strategies for the microbial production of lignocellulosic bioethanol and exploration of their economic implications: A step forward towards sustainability and commercialization

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Bioethanol Production in Poland in the Context of Sustainable Development-Current Status and Future Prospects

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Electro-reforming of bioethanol produced by sugar fermentation on a Pt-Ni anodic catalyst supported on graphene nanoplatelets

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The integration of pelletized agricultural residues into electricity grid: Perspectives from the human, environmental and economic aspects

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Bacterial metabolic engineering for the production of second-generation (2 G) bioethanol and biobutanol; a review

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Polyether-block-amide thin-film composite hollow fiber membranes for the recovery of butanol from ABE process by pervaporation

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Physical properties and structural characteristics of particulate matter emitted from a diesel engine fueled with biodiesel blends

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Recent advancement in production of bioethanol from waste biomass: a review

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Valorization of lignocellulosic biomass: Progress in the production of second-generation bioethanol

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Study on carbon rearrangements of CO2 co-feeding pyrolysis of corn stover and oak wood

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Bioethanol as an alternative fuels: A review on production strategies and technique for analysis

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Pretreatment of finger millet straw (Eleusine coracana) for enzymatic hydrolysis towards bioethanol production

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Exergy analysis of a holistic zero waste macroalgae-based third-generation bioethanol biorefinery approach: Biowaste to bioenergy

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A critical review on nanotechnological advancement in biogas production from organic waste

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Enhanced thermochemical valorization of coconut husk through carbon dioxide integration: A sustainable approach to agricultural residue utilization

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Sugar Industry Waste for Bioelectricity Generation

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Integrated First and Second Generation Ethanol Production from Sugarcane

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Integrated versus stand-alone second generation ethanol production from sugarcane bagasse and trash

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Economic and environmental assessment of integrated 1st and 2nd generation sugarcane bioethanol production evaluating different 2nd generation process alternatives

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