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ReviewJournal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology2016

Recent trends in bioethanol production from food processing byproducts.

Meltem Yesilcimen Akbas, Benjamin C Stark

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Review in Journal of industrial microbiology & biotechnology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Harnessing rice husks: Bioethanol production for sustainable future.Current research in microbial sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Meltem Yesilcimen AkbasDepartment of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Gebze Technical University, Gebze-Kocaeli, Kocaeli, 41400, Turkey. akbasm@gtu.edu.tr.
Benjamin C StarkBiology Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, 60616, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The widespread use of corn starch and sugarcane as sources of sugar for the production of ethanol via fermentation may negatively impact the use of farmland for production of food. Thus, alternative sources of fermentable sugars, particularly from lignocellulosic sources, have been extensively investigated. Another source of fermentable sugars with substantial potential for ethanol production is the waste from the food growing and processing industry. Reviewed here is the use of waste from potato processing, molasses from processing of sugar beets into sugar, whey from cheese production, byproducts of rice and coffee bean processing, and other food processing wastes as sugar sources for fermentation to ethanol. Specific topics discussed include the organisms used for fermentation, strategies, such as co-culturing and cell immobilization, used to improve the fermentation process, and the use of genetic engineering to improve the performance of ethanol producing fermenters.

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BiofuelsFood HandlingBeta vulgarisCheeseEthanolFermentationGenetic EngineeringMolassesSolanum tuberosumSugarsWaste ProductsWheyBiofuelsEthanolSugarsWaste ProductsBioethanolFermentationFood processing wastePotatoSugar beetWhey

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