@article{SiekerNeunerDimitrovaetal.2011,
  author    = {Sieker, Tim and Neuner, Andreas and Dimitrova, Darina and Tippk{\"o}tter, Nils and Muffler, Kai and Bart, Hans-J{\"o}rg and Heinzle, Elmar and Ulber, Roland},
  title     = {Ethanol production from grass silage by simultaneous pretreatment, saccharification and fermentation: First steps in the process development},
  series = {Engineering in Life Sciences},
  volume    = {11},
  journal   = {Engineering in Life Sciences},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Wiley},
  address   = {Weinheim},
  doi       = {10.1002/elsc.201000160},
  pages     = {436 -- 442},
  year      = {2011},
  abstract  = {Grass silage provides a great potential as renewable feedstock. Two fractions of the grass silage, a press juice and the fiber fraction, were evaluated for their possible use for bioethanol production. Direct production of ethanol from press juice is not possible due to high concentrations of organic acids. For the fiber fraction, alkaline peroxide or enzymatic pretreatment was used, which removes the phenolic acids in the cell wall. In this study, we demonstrate the possibility to integrate the enzymatic pretreatment with a simultaneous saccharification and fermentation to achieve ethanol production from grass silage in a one-process step. Achieved yields were about 53 g ethanol per kg silage with the alkaline peroxide pretreatment and 91 g/kg with the enzymatic pretreatment at concentrations of 8.5 and 14.6 g/L, respectively. Furthermore, it was shown that additional supplementation of the fermentation medium with vitamins, trace elements and nutrient salts is not necessary when the press juice is directly used in the fermentation step.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{SiekerUlberDimitrovaetal.2009,
  author    = {Sieker, Tim and Ulber, Roland and Dimitrova, Darina and Bart, Hans-J{\"o}rg and Neuner, Andreas and Heinzle, Elmar and Tippk{\"o}tter, Nils},
  title     = {Silage : Fermentationsrohstoff f{\"u}r die chemische Industrie?},
  series = {labor\&more},
  journal   = {labor\&more},
  number    = {2},
  pages     = {44 -- 45},
  year      = {2009},
  abstract  = {In Anbetracht des zu erwartenden R{\"u}ckgangs der Verf{\"u}gbarkeit fossiler Rohstoffe m{\"u}ssen nicht nur f{\"u}r den Energiesektor, sondern auch f{\"u}r die Herstellung industrieller Produkte alternative Rohstoffe gefunden werden. Ein Beispiel f{\"u}r einen nicht in Nahrungsmittelkonkurrenz stehenden nachwachsenden Rohstoff ist gr{\"u}ne Biomasse wie Gras und Klee. Diese lassen sich in Deutschland auf großen Fl{\"a}chen anbauen und enthalten eine Vielzahl potenzieller Substrate f{\"u}r Fermentationen.},
  language  = {de}
}
@article{SiekerNeunerDimitrovaetal.2010,
  author    = {Sieker, Tim and Neuner, Andreas and Dimitrova, Darina and Tippk{\"o}tter, Nils and Bart, Hans-J{\"o}rg and Heinzle, Elmar and Ulber, Roland},
  title     = {Grassilage als Rohstoff f{\"u}r die chemische Industrie},
  series = {Chemie Ingenieur Technik},
  volume    = {82},
  journal   = {Chemie Ingenieur Technik},
  number    = {8, Special Issue: Industrielle Nutzung nachwachsender Rohstoffe},
  publisher = {Wiley-VCH},
  address   = {Weinheim},
  issn      = {1522-2640},
  doi       = {10.1002/cite.201000088},
  pages     = {1153 -- 1159},
  year      = {2010},
  abstract  = {Grassilage stellt einen nachwachsenden Rohstoff mit großem Potenzial dar. Neben Cellulose und Hemicellulose enth{\"a}lt sie auch organische S{\"a}uren, insbesondere Milchs{\"a}ure. In einem Bioraffinerie-Projekt wird die Milchs{\"a}ure aus der Silage isoliert und mit gentechnisch optimierten St{\"a}mmen zu L-Lysin weiterverarbeitet. Die Lignocellulose wird hydrolysiert und zu Ethanol fermentiert. Ein besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf der Integration der unterschiedlichen Prozesse sowie der einzelnen Prozessschritte zu einem Gesamtprozess, der s{\"a}mtliche Inhaltsstoffe der Silage verwertet.},
  language  = {de}
}