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ReviewFrontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology2020

Supercritical Fluids: A Promising Technique for Biomass Pretreatment and Fractionation.

Estephanie Laura Nottar Escobar, Thiago Alessandre da Silva, Cleverton Luiz Pirich, Marcos Lúcio Corazza, Luiz Pereira Ramos

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Review in Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 152 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Estephanie Laura Nottar EscobarApplied Kinetics and Thermodynamics Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil.
Thiago Alessandre da SilvaDepartment of Chemistry, Research Center in Applied Chemistry, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil.
Cleverton Luiz PirichDepartment of Chemistry, Research Center in Applied Chemistry, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil.
Marcos Lúcio CorazzaApplied Kinetics and Thermodynamics Laboratory, Department of Chemical Engineering, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil.
Luiz Pereira RamosDepartment of Chemistry, Research Center in Applied Chemistry, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil.
Universidade Federal do Paraná · BR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Lignocellulosic biomasses are primarily composed of cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin and these biopolymers are bonded together in a heterogeneous matrix that is highly recalcitrant to chemical or biological conversion processes. Thus, an efficient pretreatment technique must be selected and applied to this type of biomass in order to facilitate its utilization in biorefineries. Classical pretreatment methods tend to operate under severe conditions, leading to sugar losses by dehydration and to the release of inhibitory compounds such as furfural (2-furaldehyde), 5-hydroxy-2-methylfurfural (5-HMF), and organic acids. By contrast, supercritical fluids can pretreat lignocellulosic materials under relatively mild pretreatment conditions, resulting in high sugar yields, low production of fermentation inhibitors and high susceptibilities to enzymatic hydrolysis while reducing the consumption of chemicals, including solvents, reagents, and catalysts. This work presents a review of biomass pretreatment technologies, aiming to deliver a state-of-art compilation of methods and results with emphasis on supercritical processes.

Indexed as

biofuelsbiomass pretreatment and fractionationbiorefinerylignocellulosic biomasssupercritical fluids

Identifiers

PMID32391337
PMCPMC7191036
OpenAlexW3020503768

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