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Review Paper Appraises Economics and Environmental Impacts of Bioethanol Production Technologies from Lignocellulosics

April 27, 2007
http://www.academicjournals.org/bmbr/abstracts/abs2007/Feb/Chandel%20et%20al.htm

This paper review provides a review of ethanol production technologies from lignocellulosic biomass, starting with biomass pretreatment, to the enzymatic saccharification (breakdown of cellulose to glucose) and alcohol fermentation. It also makes an assessment of economic and environmental viabilities of these technologies. The technical and economic hurdles which must be overcome to realize commercial production of ethanol from lignocellulosics is presented..