TY - JOUR AU - Katsimpouras, Constantinos AU - Kalogiannis, Konstantinos G. AU - Kalogianni, Aggeliki AU - Lappas, Angelos A. AU - Topakas, Evangelos PY - 2017 DA - 2017/02/28 TI - Production of high concentrated cellulosic ethanol by acetone/water oxidized pretreated beech wood JO - Biotechnology for Biofuels SP - 54 VL - 10 IS - 1 AB - Lignocellulosic biomass is an abundant and inexpensive resource for biofuel production. Alongside its biotechnological conversion, pretreatment is essential to enable efficient enzymatic hydrolysis by making cellulose susceptible to cellulases. Wet oxidation of biomass, such as acetone/water oxidation, that employs hot acetone, water, and oxygen, has been found to be an attractive pretreatment method for removing lignin while producing less degradation products. The remaining enriched cellulose fraction has the potential to be utilized under high gravity enzymatic saccharification and fermentation processes for the cost-competing production of bioethanol. SN - 1754-6834 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-017-0737-9 DO - 10.1186/s13068-017-0737-9 ID - Katsimpouras2017 ER -