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ReviewMolecules (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Pre-treatment of Oil Palm Biomass for Fermentable Sugars Production.

Nur Fatin Athirah Ahmad Rizal, Mohamad Faizal Ibrahim, Mohd Rafein Zakaria, Suraini Abd-Aziz, Phang Lai Yee, Mohd Ali Hassan

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Review in Molecules (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Nur Fatin Athirah Ahmad RizalDepartment of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. nurfatinrizal@gmail.com.
Mohamad Faizal IbrahimDepartment of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. faizal_ibrahim@upm.edu.my.ORCID 0000-0002-4611-1684
Mohd Rafein ZakariaDepartment of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. mohdrafein@upm.edu.my.
Suraini Abd-AzizDepartment of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. suraini@upm.edu.my.
Phang Lai YeeDepartment of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. phanglaiyee@upm.edu.my.
Mohd Ali HassanDepartment of Bioprocess Technology, Faculty of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. alihas@upm.edu.my.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Malaysia is the second largest palm oil producer in the world and this industry generates more than 80 million tonnes of biomass every year. When considering the potential of this biomass to be used as a fermentation feedstock, many studies have been conducted to develop a complete process for sugar production. One of the essential processes is the pre-treatment to modify the lignocellulosic components by altering the structural arrangement and/or removing lignin component to expose the internal structure of cellulose and hemicellulose for cellulases to digest it into sugars. Each of the pre-treatment processes that were developed has their own advantages and disadvantages, which are reviewed in this study.

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BiomassCarbohydrate MetabolismFermentationArecaceaefermentationlignocellulosic biomasspalm oil process flowpre-treatment

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PMID29880760
PMCPMC6099572

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