Empty Fruit Bunch from Date Palm Industries – A Sustainable Resource for Producing Biofuels and Industrial Solvents

EFB contains polymeric sugars that can be converted to biofuel by enzymatic hydrolysis and microbial fermentation

Date palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) is a reliable and underutilized agriculture residue generated by the date industry. EFB contains…

Full text: http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ind.2015.0036

Author

Magyar Margaret, Jin Mingjie, Sousa Leonardo da Costa, Aleid Salah Mohammed, Al-Hajhoj Mohammed Refdan, Sudhakar Balakrishnan, Balan Venkatesh

Source

Industrial Biotechnology, 2016-08-01.

Supplier

Michigan State University

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