Umeå
Our research, focused on using edible white-rot funghi to pre-process wood lignocellulose for a production of advanced biofuel such as bioethanol, has led to exciting results.
Integrated cultivation of mushrooms and production of bioethanol based on the new and innovative method we have developed reduces costs.
For mushroom production, there are at least one third lower costs. In addition, the degradation of the fungi by the substrate can replace thermochemical pretreatment normally used to produce ethanol from wood. This thermochemical method accounts for about 30 percent of the total cost of ethanol production.
Mushroom cultivation on Swedish timber is an interesting concept for producing both food and biofuel in the future.
Speaker is Shaojun Xiong, researcher at the Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology, SLU.
The lecture is part of Worth knowing a series of lunch lectures open to everyone. The lectures last around 30 minutes and we offer vegetarian soup and bread on a first come, first served basis.
The lecture series is a collaboration between SLU's environmental monitoring and assessment, the Faculty of Forest Sciences and the SLU University Library.
pernilla.christensen@slu.se, +46 90-786 85 27, +46 70-633 73 86
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