Lignocellulosic Biomass to Value-Added Products
A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Fermentation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 March 2024) | Viewed by 4320
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biofuels; value-added products
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Lignocellulosic biomass is a natural and ubiquitous resource from woody and nonwoody plants. It is the most abundantly available raw material on Earth for the production of value-added products, especially biofuels. It is mainly composed of two kinds of polysaccharides (cellulose and hemicellulose) and aromatic-rich polymers (lignin). These polysaccharides have five and six carbon sugars. When lignocellulosic biomass is hydrolyzed, it generates reducing sugars, phenolic compounds, organic acids and aldehydes. The exploitation of lignocellulosic biomass has come out with numerous bio-based chemicals and materials in the paper and pulp industry and biofuels. Almost all the products and chemicals are derived from the sugars in cellulose. It is the most economical and renewable feedstock for second-generation biofuels because it does not cause food scarcity. The structure of lignocellulosic biomass with its three components makes the processing of lignocellulose challenging. So, the production of biofuels and other value-added products from lignocellulose degradation needs the use of the coordinated metabolic activity of enzymes and microorganisms in combination with particular heat and chemicals. The growing universal demand for biofuels coaxed the formation and optimization of production strategies. Optimization in turn needs a detailed understanding of the metabolic pathways and microbial mechanisms behind the formation of each product of interest. Still, wide research is mandatory for the commercial production of a well-organized integrated biotransformation process for the production of lignocellulose-mediated products.
Dr. Muhammad Irfan
Dr. Marcelo Franco
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- lignocellulose pretreatment
- saccharification
- fermentation
- bioethanol
- biobutanol
- value-added chemicals
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