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BIOTECHNOLOGY LETTERS
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BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
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Laxmi Sharma, Nurnabi Meherul Alam, Suman Roy, Pratik Satya, Gouranga Kar, Subhojit Ghosh, Tinku Goswami, Bijan Majumdar
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Huaxing Fang, Xinyu Xie, Qiulu Chu, Wenyao Tong, Kai Song
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BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Agricultural Engineering
Wei Wang, Duu-Jong Lee
Summary: Biomass recalcitrance poses a significant challenge for biomass utilization, leading to the development of deep eutectic solvents (DES) as a promising solvent for biomass pretreatment. Current research focuses on the fractionation and saccharification enhancement of lignocellulosic biomass using DES.
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
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Cheng-Ye Ma, Ling-Hua Xu, Qian Sun, Shao-Ni Sun, Xue-Fei Cao, Jia-Long Wen, Tong-Qi Yuan
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BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
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Yu Zhang, Ruonan Wang, Jinshui Yang, Liang Liu, Yi Yang, Entao Wang, Hongli Yuan
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Caoxing Huang, Xiao Jiang, Xiaojun Shen, Jinguang Hu, Wei Tang, Xinxing Wu, Arthur Ragauskas, Hasan Jameel, Xianzhi Meng, Qiang Yong
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RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS
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PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
(2018)
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Ziliang Luo, Meng Wang, Yan Long, Yongju Huang, Lei Shi, Chunyu Zhang, Xiang Liu, Bruce D. L. Fitt, Jinxia Xiang, Annaliese S. Mason, Rod J. Snowdon, Peifa Liu, Jinling Meng, Jun Zou
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PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY JOURNAL
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Han Qin, Graham J. King, Priyakshee Borpatragohain, Jun Zou
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Review
Agricultural Engineering
Weixin Zhao, Tianyi Hu, Hao Ma, Dan Li, Qingliang Zhao, Junqiu Jiang, Liangliang Wei
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BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
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Christina Karmann, Anna Magrova, Pavel Jenicek, Jan Bartacek, Vojtech Kouba
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BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
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Review
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Ty Shitanaka, Haylee Fujioka, Muzammil Khan, Manpreet Kaur, Zhi-Yan Du, Samir Kumar Khanal
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Rohit Dey, Franziska Ortiz Tena, Song Wang, Josef Martin Messmann, Christian Steinweg, Claudia Thomsen, Clemens Posten, Stefan Leu, Matthias S. Ullrich, Laurenz Thomsen
Summary: This study investigated the operation of a 1000L microalgae-based membrane photobioreactor system for continuous secondary wastewater treatment. The research focused on a green microalgae strain called Desmodesmus sp. The study aimed to understand key trends and optimization strategies by conducting experiments in both summer and winter seasons. The findings showed that maintaining low cell concentrations during periods of light inhibition was beneficial for nutrient uptake rates. Effective strategies for enhancing algae-based wastewater treatment included cell mass recycling and adjusting dilution rates based on light availability.
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
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