Value-adding to cellulosic ethanol: lignin polymers.
By William O. S. Doherty, Payam Mousavioun, C. Fellows. 2011
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Lignocellulosic waste materials are the most promising feedstock for generation of a renewable, carbon-neutral substitute for existing liquid fuels. The development of value-added products from lignin will greatly improve the economics of producing liquid fuels from biomass. This review gives an outline of lignin chemistry, describes the current processes of lignocellulosic biomass fractionation and the lignin products obtained through these processes, then outlines current and potential value-added applications of these products, in particular as components of polymer composites.
Subfields: Biomedical Engineering
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Citations in the corpus
- Lignocellulases: a review of emerging and developing enzymes, systems, and practices (2017, background): “Lignocellulosic biomass is one of the abundant, low-cost, and renewable/ sustainable feedstock for the production of biochemicals (including biofuels) due to its rich cellulose content (Roedl 2010; Doherty et al. 2011; Gallezot 2012).”
- Fabrication of uniform lignin colloidal spheres for developing natural broad-spectrum sunscreens with high sun protection factor (2017, background): “During the pulping and bioethanol producing processes, cellulose and hemicellulose in plants are extracted to make paper or produce bioethanol, while lignin is discharged as byproduct (Doherty et al., 2011; Xiong et al., 2015).”