Green Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
25(6), P. 2042 - 2086
Published: Jan. 1, 2023
This
review
aims
to
assess
the
sustainability
and
greenness
of
modification
processing
lignin
feedstock
using
an
adaptation
CHEM21
Metrics
Toolkit
includes
a
guide
for
green
solvents
designing
ionic
liquids.
Environments,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
10(1), P. 6 - 6
Published: Dec. 23, 2022
An
upsurge
in
global
population
and
rapid
urbanization
has
accelerated
huge
dependence
on
petroleum-derived
fuels
consequent
environmental
concerns
owing
to
greenhouse
gas
emissions
the
atmosphere.
integrated
biorefinery
uses
lignocellulosic
feedstock
as
raw
material
for
production
of
renewable
biofuels,
other
fine
chemicals.
The
sustainable
bio-economy
industry
would
benefit
greatly
from
effective
use
biomass
obtained
agricultural
feedstocks
replace
petrochemical
products.
Lignin,
cellulose,
hemicellulose,
extractives,
which
are
essential
components
biomass,
must
be
separated
or
upgraded
into
useful
forms
order
fully
realize
potential
biorefinery.
development
low-cost
green
pretreatment
technologies
with
deconstruction
is
imperative
an
efficient
bioprocess.
abundance
microorganisms
along
their
continuous
various
degradative
enzymes
makes
them
suited
environmentally
friendly
bioconversion
agro-industrial
wastes
viable
bioproducts.
present
review
highlights
concept
biorefinery,
its
valorization
by
strategies
biofuels
biochemicals.
major
barriers
challenges
technologies,
sustainability
bioproducts,
promising
solutions
alleviate
those
bottlenecks
also
summarized.
Catalysts,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
12(11), P. 1373 - 1373
Published: Nov. 5, 2022
The
grave
environmental,
social,
and
economic
concerns
over
the
unprecedented
exploitation
of
non-renewable
energy
resources
have
drawn
attention
policy
makers
research
organizations
towards
sustainable
use
agro-industrial
food
crop
wastes.
Enzymes
are
versatile
biocatalysts
with
immense
potential
to
transform
industry
lignocellulosic
biorefineries.
Microbial
enzymes
offer
cleaner
greener
solutions
produce
fine
chemicals
compounds.
production
industrially
important
from
abundantly
present
waste
offers
for
commercial
value-added
chemicals.
recent
developments
in
biocatalytic
systems
designed
either
increase
catalytic
capability
or
create
new
distinctive
properties.
limitations
low
efficiency
enzyme
denaturation
ambient
conditions
can
be
mitigated
by
employing
diverse
inexpensive
immobilization
carriers,
such
as
agro-food
based
materials,
biopolymers,
nanomaterials.
Moreover,
revolutionary
protein
engineering
tools
help
designing
constructing
tailored
improved
substrate
specificity,
activity,
stability,
reaction
product
inhibition.
This
review
discusses
essential
industrial
trash
application
low-cost
approaches
development.
Bioresource Technology,
Journal Year:
2022,
Volume and Issue:
369, P. 128396 - 128396
Published: Nov. 26, 2022
Pretreatment
processes
-
recognized
as
critical
steps
for
efficient
biomass
refining
have
received
much
attention
over
the
last
two
decades.
In
this
context,
deep
eutectic
solvents
(DES)
emerged
a
novel
alternative
to
conventional
representing
step
forward
in
achieving
more
sustainable
with
both
environmental
and
economic
benefits.
This
paper
presents
an
updated
review
of
state-of-the-art
DES-based
applications
biorefinery
schemes.
Besides
describing
fundamentals
DES
composition,
synthesis,
recycling,
study
comprehensive
existing
techno-economic
life
cycle
assessment
studies.
Challenges,
barriers,
perspectives
scale-up
are
also
discussed.
Green Chemistry,
Journal Year:
2024,
Volume and Issue:
26(7), P. 3627 - 3669
Published: Jan. 1, 2024
Deep
eutectic
solvents
(DESs)
enable
many
processes
to
be
environmentally
friendly.
This
Tutorial
Review
aims
showcase
the
roles
of
DESs
in
synthesis
functional
materials
from
a
green
chemistry
perspective.
Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research,
Journal Year:
2023,
Volume and Issue:
62(29), P. 11723 - 11734
Published: July 18, 2023
Deep
eutectic
solvents
(DESs)
have
attracted
significant
interest
in
dissolving
lignocellulosic
components.
However,
revealing
the
relationship
between
solvation
properties
of
DESs
and
their
ability
to
dissolve
components
remains
a
challenge.
Herein,
56
were
prepared
applied
This
revealed
that
Kamlet–Taft
parameters
(i.e.,
α,
β,
π*)
significantly
affected
by
structures
DESs.
More
notably,
correlation
solubility
varied
with
Concretely,
greater
values
β
β–α
(net
basicity),
are
expected
cellulose
efficiently,
net
basicity,
favorable
lignin,
xylan
was
linearly
correlated
value.
These
findings
provided
valuable
information
necessary
theoretical
guidance
on
designing
robust
based
solvatochromic
parameters.