date:Jul 01, 2014
search team said. Some of its chemical components can be made into valuable products. First, the finely chopped straw has to be opened up: with the help of solvents, the cell walls are broken, the lignin is dissolved away. The remaining xylan and cellulose are then processed further.
Usually the straw has to be treated with expensive enzymes to break it down into sugar, said Professor Robert Mach (Vienna University of Technology). In highly concentrated molasses, special strains of yeast can th