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Making Biofuels Part 1

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Plant Structural Components

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http://scidacreview.org/0905/html/biofuel

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2014/cs/c4cs00235k

lignin cellulose hemicellulose.jpg

Ligning, cellulose, and hemicellulose.jpg

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Lecture Notes

We've seen portions of this slide in the past. Remember that the three main components of biomass stems are lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose. We are interested primarily in cellulose in the conversion of stems into ethanol.