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Environmental Sciences

D-Index
69
Citations
17806
World Ranking
1780
National Ranking
80

Best Publications

  • Pretreatment technologies for an efficient bioethanol production process based on enzymatic hydrolysis: A review

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  • Ethanol from lignocellulosic materials by a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation process (SFS) with Kluyveromyces marxianus CECT 10875

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  • Ethanol Production From Steam-Explosion Pretreated Wheat Straw

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  • Optimizing Liquid Hot Water pretreatment conditions to enhance sugar recovery from wheat straw for fuel-ethanol production

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  • Evaluation of steam explosion pre-treatment for enzymatic hydrolysis of sunflower stalks.

    Encarnación Ruiz;Cristóbal Cara;Paloma Manzanares;Mercedes Ballesteros

  • Production of fuel ethanol from steam-explosion pretreated olive tree pruning

    Cristóbal Cara;Encarnación Ruiz;Mercedes Ballesteros;Paloma Manzanares

  • Comparison of SHF and SSF processes from steam-exploded wheat straw for ethanol production by xylose-fermenting and robust glucose-fermenting Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains.

    Elia Tomás-Pejó;Jose M. Oliva;Mercedes Ballesteros;Lisbeth Olsson

  • Hydrothermal pretreatment conditions to enhance ethanol production from poplar biomass

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  • Extrusion as a pretreatment for lignocellulosic biomass: Fundamentals and applications

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  • Effect of inhibitors released during steam-explosion pretreatment of barley straw on enzymatic hydrolysis.

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  • Enzymic hydrolysis of steam exploded herbaceous agricultural waste (Brassica carinata) at different particule sizes

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  • A review of biological delignification and detoxification methods for lignocellulosic bioethanol production

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  • Linking microalgae and cyanobacteria culture conditions and key-enzymes for carbohydrate accumulation.

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  • Effect of lignocellulosic degradation compounds from steam explosion pretreatment on ethanol fermentation by thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces marxianus.

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  • Biotechnological advances in lactic acid production by lactic acid bacteria: lignocellulose as novel substrate

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  • Enhancing methane production of Chlorella vulgaris via thermochemical pretreatments.

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  • Microalgae autoflocculation: an alternative to high-energy consuming harvesting methods

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  • Acclimation to extremely high ammonia levels in continuous biomethanation process and the associated microbial community dynamics.

    Hailin Tian;Ioannis A. Fotidis;Enrico Mancini;Laura Treu

  • Hydrothermal Pretreatment Conditions to Enhance Ethanol Production from Poplar Biomass

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  • Effect of chip size on steam explosion pretreatment of softwood.

    I. Ballesteros;J. M. Oliva;A. A. Navarro;A. González

Frequent Co-Authors

Eulogio Castro
Eulogio Castro University of Jaén
Lisbeth Olsson
Lisbeth Olsson Chalmers University of Technology
Irini Angelidaki
Irini Angelidaki Technical University of Denmark
Matti Siika-aho
Matti Siika-aho VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Panagiotis Grammelis
Panagiotis Grammelis Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
Omar Masera
Omar Masera National Autonomous University of Mexico
Raúl Muñoz
Raúl Muñoz University of Valladolid
José Luis Sanz
José Luis Sanz Autonomous University of Madrid
Carlos Martín
Carlos Martín Instituto de Salud Carlos III
Cristóbal N. Aguilar
Cristóbal N. Aguilar Autonomous University of Coahuila

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