Ethanol production from biomass: technology and commercialization status
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Owing to technical improvements in the processes used to produce ethanol from biomass, construction of at least two waste-to-ethanol production plants in the United States is expected to start this year. Although there are a number of robust fermentation microorganisms available, initial pretreatment of the biomass and costly cellulase enzymes remain critical targets for process and cost improvements. A highly efficient, very low-acid pretreatment process is approaching pilot testing, while research on cellulases for ethanol production is expanding at both enzyme and organism level.
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- Authors
- Mielenz, J. R.
- Corresponding author
- Mielenz, Jonathan R
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Microbiology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2001-06
- Volume
- 4
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 324-329
- ISSN
- 1369-5274 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2000973422
- Cited by
- 440
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 0.79
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Microbiology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Energy
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Building and Construction › Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Microbial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
- Keywords
- ethanol production, biomass, lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment, cellulase, cellulolytic microorganisms, fermentation, commercialization, process cost reduction
- MeSH terms
- Ethanol, Biotechnology, Cellulase, Cellulose, Environment, Fermentation, Biomass
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