Biomass Deconstruction and Pretreatment Publications
2016
Improving Sugar Yields and Reducing Enzyme Loadings in the Deacetylation and Mechanical Refining (DMR) Process through Multistage Disk and Szego Refining and Corresponding Techno-Economic Analysis, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

2015
Techno-Economic Analysis of the Deacetylation and Disk Refining Process: Characterizing the Effect of Refining Energy and Enzyme Usage on Minimum Sugar Selling Price and Minimum Ethanol Selling Price, Biotechnology for Biofuels

Biomass-Derived Lignin to Jet Fuel Range Hydrocarbons via Aqueous Phase Hydrodeoxygenation, Green Chemistry

Pilot-Scale Batch Alkaline Pretreatment of Corn Stover, ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Controlling Porosity in Lignin-Derived Nanoporous Carbon for Supercapacitor Applications, ChemSusChem

Multiphysics Modeling and Simulation of High-Solids Dilute-Acid Pretreatment of Corn Stover in a Steam-Explosion Reactor, Chemical Engineering Journal

Transgenic Ferritin Overproduction Enhances Thermochemical Pretreatments in Arabidopsis, Biomass & Bioenergy

2014
A Highly Efficient Dilute Alkali Deacetylation and Mechanical (Disc) Refining Process for the Conversion of Renewable Biomass to Lower Cost Sugars, Biotechnology for Biofuels

Noble-Metal Catalyzed Hydrodeoxygenation of Biomass-Derived Lignin to Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Green Chemistry

Effect of Mechanical Disruption on the Effectiveness of Three Reactors Used for Dilute Acid Pretreatment of Corn Stover Part 1: Chemical and Physical Substrate Analysis, Biotechnology for Biofuels

Effect of Mechanical Disruption on the Effectiveness of Three Reactors Used for Dilute Acid Pretreatment of Corn Stover Part 2: Morphological and Structural Substrate Analysis, Biotechnology for Biofuels

Characterization of Pilot-Scale Dilute Acid Pretreatment Performance Using Deacetylated Corn Stover, Biotechnology for Biofuels

2013
Comparison of Different Mechanical Refining Technologies on the Enzymatic Digestibility of Low Severity Acid Pretreated Corn Stover, Bioresource Technology

3-D Electron Tomography of Pretreated Biomass Informs Atomic Modeling of Cellulose Microfibrils, ACS Nano

2012
The Impacts of Deacetylation prior to Dilute Acid Pretreatment on the Bioethanol Process, Biotechnology for Biofuels

Improved Ethanol Yield and Reduced Minimum Ethanol Selling Price (MESP) by Modifying Low Severity Dilute Acid Pretreatment with Deacetylation and Mechanical Refining: 1) Experimental, Biotechnology for Biofuels

Improved Ethanol Yield and Reduced Minimum Ethanol Selling Price (MESP) by Modifying Low Severity Dilute Acid Pretreatment with Deacetylation and Mechanical Refining: 2) Techno-Economic Analysis, Biotechnology for Biofuels

2011
Improved Xylan Hydrolysis of Corn Stover by Deacetylation with High Solids Dilute Acid Pretreatment, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research

Surface and Ultrastructural Characterization of Raw and Pretreated Switchgrass, Bioresource Technology

Process and Technoeconomic Analysis of Leading Pretreatment Technologies for Lignocellulosic Ethanol Production Using Switchgrass, Bioresource Technology

2010
Heat and Mass Transport in Processing of Lignocellulosic Biomass for Fuels and Chemicals, Sustainable Biotechnology