An Integrated Biorefinery Concept for Conversion of Sugar Beet Pulp into Value-added Chemicals and Pharmaceutical Intermediates
- Submitting institution
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Brunel University London
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 186-179308-6343
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1039/C7FD00094D
- Title of journal
- Faraday Discuss.
- Article number
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- First page
- 415
- Volume
- 202
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 1359-6640
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- April
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/14925
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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17
- Research group(s)
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5 - Manufacturing & Design
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This work is a multidisciplinary project driven by industrial and societal needs in developing innovative and economic ways to valorise existing waste streams. The project has demonstrated the technical feasibility of an integrated biorefinery concept in which wet sugar beet pulp, the main by-product of sugar beet processing (by British Sugar plc), can be fractionated by steam explosion into pectin and cellulose-rich streams. The three main monosaccharides present in the two biopolymers can then be solubilised, using either enzymatic or chemical hydrolysis, and separated into crude fractions suitable for conversion into higher value products for pharmaceutical and chemical supply chains.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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