DMR (deacetylation and mechanical refining) processing of corn stover achieves high monomeric sugar concentrations (230 g L−1) during enzymatic hydrolysis and high ethanol concentrations (>10% v/v) during fermentation without hydrolysate purification or concentration

Authors: Xiaowen Chen, Erik M. Kuhn, Edward W. Jennings, Robert Nelson, Ling Tao, Min Zhang, Melvin P. Tucker - Energy & Environmental Science 2016 cited by 239

Distilling and purifying ethanol is resource intensive.