2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Biological Conversions and Processes for Renewable Feedstocks I

Explore advances in products and processes based on biologically-mediated catalysis of renewable substrates. Favor papers demonstrating the sound application of core scientific and engineering principles.

Chair

James D. McMillan, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Co-Chair

N. Qureshi, National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research, USDA

Presentations

12:30 PM

(531a) Alternative Routes for Conversion of Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals

Raphael Katzen

12:50 PM

(531b) Flexible Biorefinery for Producing Value-Added Streams: Evaluation of the Cellulose Stream as a Source of Sugars and Pulp

Kiran L. Kadam, Richard Wingerson, Patrick Brown, Ed Lehrburger

01:10 PM

(531c) The Effects of AFEX Pretreatment on the Fermentability of Lignocellulosic Hydrolysates Using Escherichia Coli KO11

Ming Woei Lau, Venkatesh Balan, Bruce E. Dale

01:30 PM

(531d) Impact of Culture Nutrition on the Tolerance of Furan Inhibitors and the Conversion of High Xylose Concentrations to Ethanol by Pichia Stipitis Nrrl Y-7124

Patricia J. Slininger, Z. Lewis Liu, Steven W. Gorsich

02:00 PM

(531e) Ethanol Production from Xylose by Ethanol Resistant Derivatives of Escherichia Coli Fbr5 under Batch and Fed-Batch Conditions

Brian G. Lefebvre, Mariano Savelski, Gregory B. Hecht

02:20 PM

(531f) Bioethanol Production from Cellulosic Materials by Cell Surface Engineered Yeast Strains

Akihiko Kondo, Yasuya Fujita, Satoshi Katahira, Hideki Fukuda

02:40 PM

(531g) Effects of Fed-Batch Loading of Substrate on Enzymatic Hydrolysis and Viscosity of Pretreated Barley Straw

Lisa Rosgaard, Pavle Andric, Kim Dam-Johansen, Sven Pedersen, Anne S. Meyer