Zabed, Hossain M. and Akter, Suely and Yun, Junhua and Zhang, Guoyan and Zhao, Mei and Mofijur, M. and Awasthi, Mukesh Kumar and Kalam, M. A. and Ragauskas, Arthur and Qi, Xianghui (2023) Towards the sustainable conversion of corn stover into bioenergy and bioproducts through biochemical route: Technical, economic and strategic perspectives. Journal of Cleaner Production, 400. ISSN 0959-6526, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136699.
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Corn stover (CS) is one of the most abundant agricultural wastes and is ubiquitous around the world that is left over after grain harvest and accounts for 47-50% dry mass of the total grain yield. The global CS yield is 1661.25 million tons/year, which is 27.2% of the total agricultural waste. CS consists of about 34.5% stems, 32.3% leaves, 14.3% husks, 12.3% cobs and 6.6% flowers, with up to 45% cellulose, 30% hemicellulose and 20% lignin. Due to its favorable economic and environmental potential, CS is considered an ideal raw material for producing bio-fuels and biobased chemicals, which can largely be divided into carbohydrate and lignin platforms. However, the techno-economic perspectives of CS-based biorefineries have remained questionable due to the inadequate supply chain logistics, lack of cost-effective conversion technologies, limited scale-up of the product-specific technologies, and lower competitiveness in the market compared to their counterparts, such as sugar and starch-based biorefineries. While CS is converted by thermochemical and biochemical approaches, the latter is considered to be more sustainable for its selective conversion under mild conditions using microorganisms. This review aimed to critically discuss the latest research and developments on the biochemical conversion of CS into biofuels and chemicals. In particular, this paper covers the market potential of biofuels and chemicals to which CS can make a significant contribution, technological developments in the microbial conversion of CS, major biofuels and chemicals produced from CS-derived carbohydrates and lignin, and the technoeconomic perspec-tives of CS-based biorefinery.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (32272284), National Key R & D Program of China (2021YFA0910401), Foreign Experts Program, Ministry of S T, China (ON2022012005L), Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program of Jiangsu Province (JSSCBS20210929), University of Tennessee |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Lignocellulosic biomass; Biorefinery; Waste to energy; Biomass processing; Pretreatment |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences S Agriculture > S Agriculture (General) T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
| Divisions: | Universiti Malaya |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jul 2025 07:55 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Jul 2025 07:55 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/50859 |
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