Scale-up and evaluation of hydrothermal pretreatment in isothermal and non-isothermal regimen for bioethanol production using agave bagasse

Financial support is gratefully acknowledged from the Energy Sustainability Fund 2014-05 (CONACYT-SENER), Mexican Centre for Innovation in Bioenergy (Cemie-Bio), Cluster of Bioalcohols (Ref. 249564). We gratefully acknowledge support for this research by the Mexican Science and Technology Council (CONACYT, Mexico) for the Infrastructure Project – INFR201601 (Ref. 269461) and Basic Science Project – 2015-01 (Ref. 254808). Author Daniela L. Aguilar would like to thank the Mexican Science and Technology Council (CONACY, Mexico) for their master fellowship support (grant number: 582801/ 414478) andauthor ElisaZanuso thanksthe EnergySustainability Fund 2014-05 (CONACYT-SENER, Ref. 249564) for the undergraduate fellowship granted. Also, the authors thank Prof. Lucilia Domingues and Jose Teixeira (University of Minho, Portugal) for kindly providing the yeast strain.