Advances in Biomass Pretreatment and Conversion Processes

Dear Colleagues,

The main problem with the use of lignocellulosic biomass in biosynthesis processes is its effective degradation, which is related to the use of a pretreatment method that guarantees obtaining biomass susceptible to enzymatic hydrolysis. This Special Issue of Processes entitled "Advances in Biomass Pretreatment and Conversion Processes" aims to present new methods of pretreatment, especially in chemical, physical, physico-chemical and biological methods, the use of which will intensify the use of lignocellulosic biomass as a carbon source in microbiological synthesis processes. The proposed new lignocellulose pretreatment methods should, apart from increasing the susceptibility of biomass to enzymatic hydrolysis, also generate small amounts of by-products, i.e., 5-hydroxymethylfurfural and furfural, which limit the metabolic activity of microorganisms. The Special Issue will also include articles describing the industrial application of lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment methods.

The Special Issue welcomes papers on:

• The use of new methods of lignocellulose pretreatment, classified under chemical, physical, physicochemical and biological methods,
• The strategies used to limit the formation of pretreatment by-products, which are inhibitors of biological processes,
• Methods of biomass pretreatment in the preparation of hydrolysates used in biosynthetic processes,
• Characteristics of bioconversion processes of biomass hydrolysates obtained from new sources of lignocellulose,
• Detoxification of lignocellulosic hydrolysates,
• Characteristics of processes using lignocellulose as a carbon source in microbiological syntheses.

Dr. Grzegorz Kłosowski
Dr. Dawid Mikulski
Guest Editors

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