2008 Annual Meeting

Session: Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass and Interactions with Other Processing Steps I

Explore progress in developing and understanding technologies to prepare solid cellulosic biomass for conversion by enzymatic hydrolysis using a variety of process configurations. Included will be updates from investigators in the Biomass Refining Consortium for Applied Fundamentals and Innovation (CAFI).

Chair

Richard T. Elander, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Co-Chair

Tae Hyun Kim, Iowa State University

Presentations

08:30 AM

(617a) Process Modeling Results of Various Leading Pretreatment Technologies for Corn Stover and Hybrid Poplar
Tim Eggeman, Richard Elander

08:55 AM

(617b) Short-Term Lime Pretreatment: Woody Vs Herbaceous Biomass
Rocio Sierra, Mark Holtzapple

09:20 AM

(617c) Pretreatment of Switch Grass by Aqueous Ammonia
Y. Y. Lee, V. Ramesh Pallapolu, Urvi D. Kothari

09:45 AM

(617d) Effect of Upland Vs. Lowland Variety on Sugar Yields Following Ammonia Fiber Expansion (AFEX) Pretreatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Shawnee and Alamo Switchgrass
Rebecca J. Garlock, Venkatesh Balan, Bruce E. Dale

10:10 AM

(617e) Effect of Liquid Hot Water Pretreatment on Switchgrass Hydrolysis
Youngmi Kim, Nathan S. Mosier, Michael Ladisch

10:35 AM

(617f) Sugar Yields from Switchgrass for the Coupled Operations of Dilute Acid and Sulfur Dioxide Pretreatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis
Jian Shi, Mirvat Ebrik, Bin Yang, Charles Wyman