Chapter 1: Feedstock Engineering and Biomass Pretreatments: New Views for a Greener Biofuels Process

Hui Wei; Roman Brunecky; Wei Wang; Michael Himmel; Melvin Tucker

doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-59592-8.00001-4

Chapter 1: Feedstock Engineering and Biomass Pretreatments: New Views for a Greener Biofuels Process

Hui Wei, Roman Brunecky, Wei Wang, Michael Himmel, Melvin Tucker

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In the future, three crucial factors will determine the likelihood of success for the direct microbial conversion of biomass to advanced biofuels: the properties of the lignocellulosic biomass feedstock, the pretreatment process, and the specific microbial processing strategy selected. Each step accounts for a substantial portion of total process cost. Here, we extend the technical umbrella for advanced biofuels to technologies including and beyond the scope of the book, such as (1) upstream-new concepts for feedstocks, (2) midstream-specialized pretreatments and cotreatments, and (3) downstream-processing of biomass sugars. The aim of this chapter is not to provide a review of specialized fields, but to highlight new concepts and approaches related to biomass processing. We emphasize the important new trends in "green production" of feedstocks, technologies for "green pretreatment" of biomass, and propose new concepts for tailored chemoprocessing-databases/libraries customized for specific microorganisms applied to specific processes.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Direct Microbial Conversion of Biomass to Advanced Biofuels
Editors	M. E. Himmel
Publisher	Elsevier
Pages	3-12
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9780444595928
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-59592-8.00001-4 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-59592-8.00001-4
State	Published - 2015

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Keywords

Cellulases
Feedstock engineering
Glycoside hydrolases
In planta enzymes
Pretreatment

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Wei, H., Brunecky, R., Wang, W., Himmel, M., & Tucker, M. (2015). Chapter 1: Feedstock Engineering and Biomass Pretreatments: New Views for a Greener Biofuels Process. In M. E. Himmel (Ed.), Direct Microbial Conversion of Biomass to Advanced Biofuels (pp. 3-12). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-59592-8.00001-4, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-59592-8.00001-4

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