ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a review of the most-cited 25 articles on the Chinese experience of bioethanol fuels. It discusses the key findings of these highly influential papers and comments on future research priorities in this field. China has been one of the most prolific countries engaged in bioethanol fuel research. The Chinese research in the field of bioethanol fuels has intensified in this context in the key research fronts of the production of bioethanol fuels, utilization of bioethanol fuels and to a lesser extent the evaluation of bioethanol fuels. The pretreatment of biomass is the first step in the production of bioethanol fuels from biomass. A number of pretreatments are used to fractionate the biomass to its constituents such as cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin. This process makes cellulose accessible for the acid or enzymatic hydrolysis process to convert cellulose to the sugars such as glucose or xylose.
