Lignin chemical controls on bioconversion of tropically grown C4 bioenergy grasses to biofuels and biobased products

Improving our understanding of environmental controls on the distribution of C3 and C4 grasses.

A number of studies have demonstrated the ecological sorting of C3 and C4 grasses along temperature and moisture gradients. However, previous studies of C3 and C4 grass biogeography have often inadvertently compared species in different and relatively unrelated lineages, which are associated with different environmental settings and distinct adaptive traits. Such confounded comparisons of C3 an...

Lignin for Bioenergy & Biomaterials

Biofuels > Bioenergy Research Centers 1 Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center

Additional scientific partners include the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, University of Florida, Illinois State University, Iowa State University, and Lucigen Corporation. Located in the world’s most productive agricultural region, the GLBRC is taking scientifically diverse approaches to converting sunlight and diverse plant feedstocks (agricultural residu...

Direct and Multistep Conversion of Lignin to Biofuels

Though the rapid development of human society, concerns on the fossil fuel shortage, pollution, and end-of-life disposal issues are attracting the most attention nowadays. Therefore, more efforts from governments, industries, and research institutes have been paid to the sustainable development than it has ever been done before. Cellulose, lignin and hemicellulose are the major components of bi...

LCA FOR AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES AND BIOBASED INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS Reference and functional unit can change bioenergy pathway choices

Purpose This study aims to compare the life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of two cellulosic bioenergy pathways (i.e., bioethanol and bioelectricity) using different references and functional units. It also aims to address uncertainties associated with a comparative life cycle analysis (LCA) for the two bioenergy pathways. Methods We develop a stochastic, comparative life cycle GHG analys...