1. Recent publications from 2014-2016 describe research on improving biomass pretreatment and saccharification methods for higher sugar yields and ethanol production. Key findings include: ionic liquid pretreatment increased enzymatic digestibility of biomass; a newly isolated yeast strain facilitated ethanol production even in presence of inhibitors; and blending cellulolytic enzyme preparations increased synergism and hydrolysis. Overall the research developed and optimized techniques for lignocellulosic bioethanol production employing various feedstocks and processing methods.

1. Recent Peer Reviewed Publication ( Jan’14 to Jun’16)
1. Ionic liquid pretreatment of biomass for sugars production: Driving factors with a
plausible mechanism for higher enzymatic digestibility;Tirath Raj, Ruchi Gaur,
Pooja Dixit, Ravi P. Gupta, V. Kagdiyal, Ravindra Kumar, Deepak K.
Tuli;Carbohydrate Polymers 149 (2016) 369–381 ( Impact factor 4.01)
2. Lignocellulosic bioethanol production employing newly isolated inhibitor and
thermotolerant Saccharomyces cerevisiae DBTIOC S24 strain in SSF and SHF;
Abhishek Mishra, Ajay K. Sharma, Sumit Sharma, A. S. Mathur, R. P.
Gupta and D. K. Tuli; RSC Advances;, 2016,6, 24381-24390;
DOI: 10.1039/C6RA00007J ( Impact factor 3.84)
3. The cellulose structural transformation for higher enzymatic hydrolysis by ionic
liquids and predicting their solvating capabilities; Tirath Raj, Manali
Kapoor, Surbhi Semwal, Sunitha Sadula, Vibhav Pandey, Ravi P.
Gupta, Ravindra Kumar, Deepak K. Tuli, B.P. Das; Journal of Cleaner
Production; Volume 113, 1 February 2016, Pages 1005–1014 ( Impact factor
3.78)
4. Improvement of wheat straw hydrolysis by cellulolytic blends of two Penicillium
spp.; Jitendra Kumar Saini, Reeta Rani Singhania, Alok Satlewal, Reetu
Saini, Ravi P Gupta, Deepak Tuli, Anshu Mathur, Mukund Adsul; Renewable
Energy; doi:10.1016/j.renene.2016.01.025; (Impact factor 3.48)
5. Lignocellulosic ethanol production employing immobilized Saccharomyces
cerevisiae in packed bed reactor; Abhishek Mishra, Ajay K. Sharmaa, Sumit
Sharma, Rashmi Bagai, Anshu S. Mathur, Ravi P. Gupta, Deepak K. Tuli;
Renewable Energy; doi:10.1016/j.renene.2016.02.010 ( Impact factor 3.48)
6. Whey waste as potential feedstock for biohydrogen production; Anil Kumar
Patel, Neha Vaisnav, Anshu Mathur, Ravi P. Gupta, Deepak Kumar Tuli;
Renewable Energy; doi:10.1016/j.renene.2016.02.039 ; ( Impact factor 3.48)
7. Bench scale dilute acid pretreatment optimization for producing fermentable
sugars from cotton stalk and physic-chemical characterization; Ruchi Gaur,
Shveta Soam, Sandeep Sharma, Ravi P. Gupta, Veena R. Bansal, Ravindra
Kumar, Deepak K. Tuli; Industrial Crops and Products; 83 (2016) 104–112 (
Impact factor 2.83)
8. Pilot scale pretreatment of wheat Straw and comparative evaluation of Commercial
enzyme preparations for Biomass saccharification and fermentation; Ruchi Agrawal,
Alok Satlewal, Ruchi Gaur, Anshu Mathur, Ravindra Kumar, Ravi Prakash Gupta,
Deepak K. Tuli; Biochemical Engineering Journal, 2015, BEJ 6130
10.1016/j.bej.2015.02.018 ( Impact factor 3.055)
9. Structural features of dilute acid, steam exploded, and alkali pretreated mustard stalk
and their impact on enzymatic hydrolysis ; Manali Kapoor, Tirath Raj, M. Vijayaraj, Anju
Chopra, Ravi P. Gupta, Deepak K. Tuli, Ravindra Kumar; Journal: Carbohydrate
Polymers, 2015, 124 (2015) 265–273 ( Impact factor 4.330)

2. 10. Life cycle assessment of fuel ethanol from sugarcane molasses in northern and western
India and its impact on Indian biofuel programme; Shveta Soam , Ravindra Kumar, Ravi
P. Gupta; Pankaj K. Sharma, Deepak K. Tuli , Biswapriya Das; Energy, 2015,
dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2015.02.025 ( Impact factor 4.465)
11. Improved saccharification of pilot-scale acid pretreated wheat straw by exploiting the
synergistic behavior of lignocellulose degrading enzymes; Ruchi Agrawal, Ruchi Gaur,
Anshu Mathur, Ravindra Kumar, Ravi Prakash Gupta, Deepak K. Tuli and Alok Satlewal;
RSC Advances; RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 71462 (Impact Factor 3.84)
12. Second generation bioethanol production at high gravity of pilot-scale pretreated
wheat straw employing newly isolated thermotolerant yeast Kluyveromyces
marxianus DBTIOC-35; Jitendra Kumar Saini, Ruchi Agrawal, Alok Satlewal,
Reetu Saini, Ravi P. Gupta, Anshu Mathur and Deepak Tuli; RSC Advances;
RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 37485 (Impact Factor 3.84)
13. Evaluation of recalcitrant features impacting enzymatic saccharification of diverse
agricultural residues treated by steam explosion and dilute acid; Ruchi
Gaur, Ruchi Agrawal, Rahul Kumar, E. Ramu, Veena Rani Bansal, Ravi P.
Gupta, Ravindra Kumar, Deepak K. Tuli and Biswapriya Das; RSC Advances
RSC Adv., 2015, 5, 60754-60762 (Impact Factor 3.84)
14. Investigating Jatropha prunings as a feedstock for producing fermentable sugars and
chemical treatment for process optimization; Ravindra Kumar, Alok Satlewal, Sandeep
Sharma, Vivekanand Kagdiyal, Ravi P. Gupta, Deepak K. Tuli, and Ravinder K.
Malhotra Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy 6, 033118 (2014); doi:
10.1063/1.4880215 ( Impact factor 4.330)
15. Blending of cellulolytic enzyme preparations from different fungal sources for improved
cellulose hydrolysis by increasing synergism; Mukund Adsul*, Bhawna Sharma, Reeta
Rani Singhania, Jitendra Kumar Saini, Ankita Sharma, Anshu Mathur, Ravi P.Gupta and
Deepak Kumar Tuli; RSC Advances, 2014, 4, 44726 (Impact Factor 3.84)
16.Pilot scale study on steam explosion and mass balance for higher sugar recovery from
rice straw; Sandeep Sharma, Ravindra Kumar* Ruchi Gaur, Ruchi Aggrawal, Ravi P
Gupta, Deepak K Tuli, B.P. Das; Bioresource Technology, 175 (2014) 350–357
( Impact factor 4.49)
17.Biohydrogen production from a novel alkalophilic isolate Clostridium sp. IODB-O3; Anil K
Patel, Arundhati Debroy, Sandeep Sharma, Reetu Saini, Anshu Mathur, Ravi P.
Gupta, Deepak K Tuli ; Bioresource Technology, 175C (2014) 291-297 ( Impact
factor 4.49)
18. Bioethanol production from wheat straw via enzymatic route employing Penicillium
janthinellum cellulases; Reeta Rani Singhania, Jitendra Kumar Saini, Reetu Saini,
Mukund Adsul, Anshu S. Mathur, Ravi P. Gupta, Deepak Kumar Tuli; Bioresource
Technology 169 (2014) 490–495 ( Impact factor 4.49)