Production of sugars from lignocellulosic biomass via biochemical and thermochemical routes
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2024-02-19
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Frontiers in Energy Research
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Sugars are precursors to the majority of the world’s biofuels. Most of these come from sugar and starch crops, such as sugarcane and corn grain. Lignocellulosic sugars, although more challenging to extract from biomass, represent a large, untapped, opportunity. In response to the increasing attention to renewable energy, fuels, and chemicals, we review and compare two strategies for extracting sugars from lignocellulosic biomass: biochemical and thermochemical processing. Biochemical processing based on enzymatic hydrolysis has high sugar yield but is relatively slow. Thermochemical processing, which includes fast pyrolysis and solvent liquefaction, offers increased throughput and operability at the expense of low sugar yields.
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This article is published as Brown, Jessica, Jake K. Lindstrom, Arpa Ghosh, Sean A. Rollag, and Robert C. Brown. "Production of sugars from lignocellulosic biomass by biochemical and thermochemical routes." Frontiers in Energy Research 12: 1347373. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenrg.2024.1347373. © 2024 Brown, Lindstrom, Ghosh, Rollag and Brown. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).