Transforming biorefinery designs with ‘Plug-In Processes of Lignin’ to enable economic waste valorization

The current biorefineries yield lignin with inadequate fractionation for bioconversion, yet substantial changes of these biorefinery designs could jeopardize carbohydrate efficiency and increase capital costs. Here the authors resolve the dilemma by designing ‘plug-in processes of lignin’ to enable...

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Main Authors: Zhi-Hua Liu, Naijia Hao, Yun-Yan Wang, Chang Dou, Furong Lin, Rongchun Shen, Renata Bura, David B. Hodge, Bruce E. Dale, Arthur J. Ragauskas, Bin Yang, Joshua S. Yuan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-06-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23920-4