Solid State Fermentation

Solid-state fermentation (SSF) is a type of fermentation process that uses solid substrates, such as agricultural by-products or waste materials, as a source of nutrients for microorganisms. It is an alternative to liquid-state fermentation (LSF),…
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Biomass Pretreatment Expert

Biomass pretreatment covers a series of processes that prepare biomass like agricultural residues, forest residues, or energy crops, for further processing into biofuels, chemicals, or other bioproducts. The objective of biomass pretreatment is to break…
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Biotechnology Experts

A biotechnology expert or consultant is a professional with advanced knowledge and expertise in the use of living organisms, cells, and biological systems to develop new products and technologies that can benefit society. A biotechnology…
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Scale-Up of Emerging Biofuel Technologies

ScaleUp of Emerging Biofuels Technologies? INTRODUCTION: The continued interest in advanced biofuels has produced numerous exciting technical advances on the laboratory, pilot and demonstration scales.  However, attempts to translate these small scale successes into commercial…
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Biomass Technology Experts

Biomass Technology Experts.  While there are many types of biomass conversion technologies, they are primarily divided into four major groups.  The first group are thermal conversion technologies – those that use heat to convert biomass…
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Biofuels from Waste

Producing biofuels from waste is now becoming more of a possibility.  We note that in many of the earlier methods, it was simply not was not economically feasible to convert organic waste to fuel as…
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Assessing Biotechnology Feasibility

Assessing Biotechnology Feasibility.  As new and exciting biotechnologies continue to arrive in the marketplace, funding sources (investors, lenders, venture capitalists, etc.) continue to be faced with some difficult decisions.  Those seeking funding seem to always…
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