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forest biomass

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  • [Byung-Hwan Um] Forest biomass is a promising resource for future biofuels and bioproducts. Pre-pulping extractionof hemicellulose by alkaline (Green Liquor) pretreatment produces a neutral-pH extract containinghemicellulose-derived oligomers. A near-term option for use of this extract is to hydrolyze theoligomers to fermentable monomer sugars. Chips of mixed northern hardwoods were cooked in a rockingdigester at 160 øC for 110 min in Green Liquor at a concentration of 3% Na2O equivalent salts on drywood...

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http://vocabs.lter-europe.net/EnvThes/msa0450

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