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Characterization of Canadian Lignocellulosic Biomass for Next Generation Biofuels- Butanol

2012· article· en· W2752665133 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueETA Florence · 2012
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicBiofuel production and bioconversion
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiofuelLignocellulosic biomassBiomass (ecology)ButanolCharacterization (materials science)Pulp and paper industryBiochemical engineeringChemistryEnvironmental scienceBiotechnologyAgronomyEngineeringBiologyMaterials scienceNanotechnologyEthanolOrganic chemistry

Abstract

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The use of lignocellulosic biomass as a renewable energy source is becoming progressively essential to address the mitigation of global warming and promote the utilization of sustainable energy supply. Biomass is a complex heterogeneous mixture of key structural organic components such as cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin along with accessory organic and inorganic composites. The primary aspect in using biomass for fuel is to understand its basic composition and properties. The current study emphasizes on some commonly available forestry and herbaceous biomass in Canada such as pinewood, timothy grass and wheat straw for their usage towards next generation biofuels. The biomasses were investigated for physicochemical and biochemical characteristics through CHNS, ICP-MS, FTIR and Raman spectroscopy, TG/DTG, XRD and HPLC analyses. Cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin with other organic components were identified in the spectroscopic and chromatographic analyses. All the biomass samples demonstrated significant cellulose and hemicelluloses levels, whereas lignin content was high in pinewood. ICP-MS of ash samples revealed substantial quantity of alkali elements indicating their compatibility towards soil amendment for reclaiming acidic soils. A combination of physiochemical and biochemical characterization signifies pinewood as a suitable feedstock for thermochemical conversion, and timothy grass and wheat straw for biochemical conversion to biofuels, respectively.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.050
Threshold uncertainty score0.316

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.046
GPT teacher head0.211
Teacher spread0.164 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it