**Meet the editors**

Dr. Anuj K. Chandel completed doctorate in 2009 from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad, India. After his masters from Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, he joined Dalas Biotech Ltd. Bhiwadi, for the large scale production of penicillin acylase. Subsequently, he worked at University of Delhi in a research project funded by Department of Biotechnology

(DBT), Govt. of India. Later he joined Celestial Labs Ltd., Hyderabad as a research associate. After this, he did post doctoral studies at University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Currently he is working at Engineering School of Lorena, University of São Paulo in a thematic project funded by Bioen-FAPESP. He is the author of 1 book on xylitol, 45 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 12 book chapters.

Professor Silvio Silvério da Silva was born on December 31st, 1959. He is a professor at Department of Biotechnology, Engineering School of Lorena, University of São Paulo (USP), Brazil. He completed his doctorate in Biochemical and Pharmaceutical Technology from USP and GBF German Research Centre for Biotechnology, Germany in 1994. He has published more than 130

papers in peer reviewed international journals and 18 book chapters. He has recorded two patents on technological processes for xylitol production. Prof. Silva has guided 10 doctoral students, 25 masters' dissertations and 55 scientific initiation students. He has successfully completed 19 research projects funded by Brazilian Government. Prof. Silvio has been actively working on various aspects of lignocellulose biotechnology for 25 years.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Section 1 Potential Biomass Sources 1**

**Pretreatment 3**

Silvério da Silva

**Production 47**

Silva Bon

Ishii

**Section 2 Biomass Processing 89**

Zhijia Liu and Benhua Fei

**Sustainable Products 15**

Chapter 1 **Characteristics of Moso Bamboo with Chemical**

Chapter 2 **Bioconversion of Hemicellulose from Sugarcane Biomass Into**

Chapter 3 **Sugarcane and Woody Biomass Pretreatments for Ethanol**

Chapter 4 **Effectiveness of Lignin-Removal in Simultaneous**

**Different Lignin-Contents 91**

Larissa Canilha, Rita de Cássia Lacerda Brambilla Rodrigues, Felipe Antônio Fernandes Antunes, Anuj Kumar Chandel, Thais Suzane dos Santos Milessi, Maria das Graças Almeida Felipe and Silvio

Ayla Sant'Ana da Silva, Ricardo Sposina Sobral Teixeira, Rondinele de Oliveira Moutta, Viridiana Santana Ferreira-Leitão, Rodrigo da Rocha Olivieri de Barros, Maria Antonieta Ferrara and Elba Pinto da

**Saccharification and Fermentation for Ethanol Production from**

Masahide Yasuda, Keisuke Takeo, Tomoko Matsumoto, Tsutomu Shiragami, Kazuhiro Sugamoto, Yoh-ichi Matsushita and Yasuyuki

**Napiergrass, Rice Straw, Silvergrass, and Bamboo with**
