2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Sustainable Biorefineries Plenary (Invited Papers)

Visionary talks (invited) will outline commercial, governmental, or academic efforts to advance multi-product biorefineries. Topics likely to be addressed include: development or improvement -- including conceptual analysis and life cycle assessments -- of renewable feedstocks-based multiproduct biorefineries, i.e., based on starch or oil crops and/or lignocellulosic biomass; development of enabling catalytic and/or separative processes; discovery or development of enabling enzyme or fermentative/microbial technologies or bio-based materials.

Chair

Thompson, D., Idaho National Laboratory

Co-Chair

Dien, B. S., USDA-ARS NCAUR