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View article: Valorization of lignin from aqueous-based lignocellulosic biorefineries
Valorization of lignin from aqueous-based lignocellulosic biorefineries Open
View article: Understanding the Influence of Water-Soluble Compounds from Unpretreated Corn Stover Pellets on Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose
Understanding the Influence of Water-Soluble Compounds from Unpretreated Corn Stover Pellets on Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose Open
Aqueous extractives are minor and non-structural compounds in biomass that can be extracted using solvents, while contributing significantly to lignocellulose characteristics. Yet their roles in enzyme-mediated processing of lignocellulosi…
View article: Modeling Feedstock Performance and Conversion Operations
Modeling Feedstock Performance and Conversion Operations Open
The objective of this project was to model formation of an aqueous slurry of crop residue, i.e., obtain a liquefied form of corn stover that may be pumped and processed at high solids loadings. The goal of the research was to define condit…
View article: Modeling of High Solids Biomass Liquefaction, Techno-economic Assessment and Life Cycle Assessment for Industrial Scale UP
Modeling of High Solids Biomass Liquefaction, Techno-economic Assessment and Life Cycle Assessment for Industrial Scale UP Open
Biomass liquefaction improves corn-stover slurry transport within a biorefinery, and reduces challenges associated with solids handling. Slurries, formed with yield stresses (i.e., viscosities) that are low enough to facilitate pumping fro…
View article: Effect of acclimatization rate on biogas production from anaerobic digestion of biodiesel waste products
Effect of acclimatization rate on biogas production from anaerobic digestion of biodiesel waste products Open
Digester acclimatization can improve the efficiency of anaerobic digestion (AD), a potentially sustainable process for generating biogas from the biological decomposition of organic byproducts from biodiesel production. This study examined…
View article: Effect of pelleting on the enzymatic digestibility of corn stover
Effect of pelleting on the enzymatic digestibility of corn stover Open
View article: Liquefaction of different corn stover fractions assisted by enzyme-biomass deconstruction
Liquefaction of different corn stover fractions assisted by enzyme-biomass deconstruction Open
Recalcitrant properties of different sources of lignocellulosic biomass represent challenges in materials processing within a biorefinery, as well as enzyme efficient deconstruction to fermentable sugars. Limitations include lignin derived…
View article: How does pelleting alter the enzymatic digestibility of corn stover?
How does pelleting alter the enzymatic digestibility of corn stover? Open
Pelleting of lignocellulosic biomass facilitates its transportation, storage and handling and offers opportunities to improve the enzymatic digestibility of pelleted biomass. Here, we report the impact of pelleting on the enzymatic digesti…
View article: Enzyme-assisted liquefaction for different fractions of corn stover pellets
Enzyme-assisted liquefaction for different fractions of corn stover pellets Open
With an increase in population, the world will depend on renewable sources to meet the increasing energy needs. The use of lignocellulosic biomass as a renewable source has been proven efficient for conversion to cellulosic ethanol and cap…
View article: Methods for increasing the yield of fermentable sugars from plant stover
Methods for increasing the yield of fermentable sugars from plant stover Open
Methods for increasing yield of fermentable sugars from plant stover are provided. The methods include using plants homozygous for two brown midrib mutations, bm1 and bm3. The methods also include using plants homozygous for a mutation in …
View article: Effect of Pelleting on the Enzymatic Digestibility of Corn Stover
Effect of Pelleting on the Enzymatic Digestibility of Corn Stover Open
View article: Analytical Modeling of Biomass Transport and Feeding Systems
Analytical Modeling of Biomass Transport and Feeding Systems Open
The processing of biomass solids in a biorefinery consists of pretreatment, enzyme hydrolysis / concurrent fermentation of sugars to ethanol, product recovery, and drying. Sustainable operation requires a front end that transforms wet soli…
View article: High Solids Loading Aqueous Slurry Formation of Corn Stover Before Pretreatment in a Fed-batch Bioreactor
High Solids Loading Aqueous Slurry Formation of Corn Stover Before Pretreatment in a Fed-batch Bioreactor Open
With the increase on population the world will depend on renewable sources to meet the increasingly energy needs. Use of lignocellulosic biomass as a renewable source has been proven efficient for conversion to cellulosic ethanol and capab…
View article: Yield stress and flow behavior of enzyme liquefied slurries from corn cobs and corn stover pellets
Yield stress and flow behavior of enzyme liquefied slurries from corn cobs and corn stover pellets Open
With the increase in population, the world will depend on renewable sources to meet the increasing energy needs. The use of lignocellulosic biomass as a renewable source has been proven efficient for conversion to cellulosic ethanol and ca…
View article: Screening method for Enzyme-based liquefaction of corn stover pellets at high solids
Screening method for Enzyme-based liquefaction of corn stover pellets at high solids Open
View article: Extractives wield a double-edged sword toward enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass
Extractives wield a double-edged sword toward enzymatic hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass Open
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View article: Liquefaction of pelleted corn cobs
Liquefaction of pelleted corn cobs Open
Liquid slurries at high loadings (pumpable slurries) are critical to handle the streams between the unit operations in a biorefinery. Their liquefaction potential was initially tested with a small-scale method using 3FPU Ctec-2 /g dry biom…
View article: Structure–property–degradability relationships of varisized lignocellulosic biomass induced by ball milling on enzymatic hydrolysis and alcoholysis
Structure–property–degradability relationships of varisized lignocellulosic biomass induced by ball milling on enzymatic hydrolysis and alcoholysis Open
View article: Rheology of enzyme liquefied corn stover slurries: The effect of solids concentration on yielding and flow behavior
Rheology of enzyme liquefied corn stover slurries: The effect of solids concentration on yielding and flow behavior Open
The measurement of yield stress and shear thinning flow behavior of slurries formed from unpretreated corn stover at solids loadings of 100–300 g/L provides a key metric for the ability to move, pump, and mix this lignocellulosic slurry, p…
View article: New strategy for liquefying corn stover pellets
New strategy for liquefying corn stover pellets Open
View article: Lattice: A Vision for Machine Learning, Data Engineering, and Policy Considerations for Digital Agriculture at Scale
Lattice: A Vision for Machine Learning, Data Engineering, and Policy Considerations for Digital Agriculture at Scale Open
Digital agriculture, with the incorporation of Internet-of-Things (IoT)-based technologies, presents the ability to control a system at multiple levels (individual, local, regional, and global) and generates tools that allow for improved d…
View article: LATTICE: Machine Learning, Data Engineering, and Policy Considerations for Digital Agriculture at Scale
LATTICE: Machine Learning, Data Engineering, and Policy Considerations for Digital Agriculture at Scale Open
View article: Purdue's Engineer Of 2020: The Journey
Purdue's Engineer Of 2020: The Journey Open
NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract PURDUE'S ENGINEER OF 2020: THE JOURNEY Abstract To remain competitive in a financially uncertain and increasingly changing global econo…
View article: Nanoscale Drug Delivery Systems: From Medicine to Agriculture
Nanoscale Drug Delivery Systems: From Medicine to Agriculture Open
The main challenges in drug delivery systems are to protect, transport and release biologically active compounds at the right time in a safe and reproducible manner, usually at a specific target site. In the past, drug nano-carriers have c…
View article: Artificial Intelligence for Digital Agriculture at Scale: Techniques, Policies, and Challenges
Artificial Intelligence for Digital Agriculture at Scale: Techniques, Policies, and Challenges Open
Digital agriculture has the promise to transform agricultural throughput. It can do this by applying data science and engineering for mapping input factors to crop throughput, while bounding the available resources. In addition, as the dat…
View article: List of Contributors
List of Contributors Open
View article: How fuel ethanol is made from corn
How fuel ethanol is made from corn Open
In this chapter, fuel ethanol, yeast's role in ethanol production, corn as ethanol feedstock, industrial ethanol production including wet milling, and dry-grind ethanol processing steps (milling, liquefaction, saccharification, fermentatio…
View article: Cellulosic ethanol—biofuel beyond corn
Cellulosic ethanol—biofuel beyond corn Open
This chapter introduces cellulose as an ethanol feedstock and describes the challenges in the production of cellulosic ethanol, related plant biotechnology, and the processes involved (pretreatment, hydrolysis, and fermentation).
View article: Overcoming cellulose recalcitrance in woody biomass for the lignin-first biorefinery
Overcoming cellulose recalcitrance in woody biomass for the lignin-first biorefinery Open
View article: Hydrolysis of untreated lignocellulosic feedstock is independent of S-lignin composition in newly classified anaerobic fungal isolate, Piromyces sp. UH3-1
Hydrolysis of untreated lignocellulosic feedstock is independent of S-lignin composition in newly classified anaerobic fungal isolate, Piromyces sp. UH3-1 Open