Steam pretreatment as an effective front end for a softwood based biorefinery
For any bioconversion/biorefinery process, the nature of the pretreatment process used has a significant influence on all of the subsequent process steps. Although steam pretreatment has proven effective on agricultural residues and hardwoods, softwoods are considerably more recalcitrant, usually re...
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University of British Columbia
2013
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/44072 |