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ArticleEnergies2018

Biological Pretreatment Strategies for Second-Generation Lignocellulosic Resources to Enhance Biogas Production.

Andreas Otto Wagner, Nina Lackner, Mira Mutschlechner, Eva Maria Prem, Rudolf Markt, Paul Illmer

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Article in Energies, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
11.7field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

26 citing papers in PubMed, 235 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andreas Otto WagnerDepartment of Microbiology, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25d, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Nina LacknerDepartment of Microbiology, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25d, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Mira MutschlechnerDepartment of Microbiology, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25d, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Eva Maria PremDepartment of Microbiology, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25d, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Rudolf MarktDepartment of Microbiology, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25d, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Paul IllmerDepartment of Microbiology, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25d, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
Universität Innsbruck · AT

Funding

Austrian Science Fund FWF P 29143Austrian Science Fund FWF P 29360
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With regard to social and environmental sustainability, second-generation biofuel and biogas production from lignocellulosic material provides considerable potential, since lignocellulose represents an inexhaustible, ubiquitous natural resource, and is therefore one important step towards independence from fossil fuel combustion. However, the highly heterogeneous structure and recalcitrant nature of lignocellulose restricts its commercial utilization in biogas plants. Improvements therefore rely on effective pretreatment methods to overcome structural impediments, thus facilitating the accessibility and digestibility of (ligno)cellulosic substrates during anaerobic digestion. While chemical and physical pretreatment strategies exhibit inherent drawbacks including the formation of inhibitory products, biological pretreatment is increasingly being advocated as an environmentally friendly process with low energy input, low disposal costs, and milder operating conditions. Nevertheless, the promising potential of biological pretreatment techniques is not yet fully exploited. Hence, we intended to provide a detailed insight into currently applied pretreatment techniques, with a special focus on biological ones for downstream processing of lignocellulosic biomass in anaerobic digestion.

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anaerobic digestionbiogasbiological pretreatmentmethanepretreatment

Identifiers

PMID30881604
PMCPMC6420082
OpenAlexW2855394501

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