2009 Annual Meeting

Session: Developments in the Pretreatment of Lignocellulosics for Bioconversion II

Chair

R. Eric Berson, University of Louisville

Co-Chair

Daniel J. Schell, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Presentations

12:30 PM

(406a) Development of Comprehensive Models to Predict the Processability of Miscanthus in Biological Conversion
Charles E. Wyman, Bin Yang, James Zhang

12:55 PM

(406b) Effective Hemicellulose Hydrolysis in a Pilot Scale Continuous Pretreatment Reactor; Improving Reactor Design and Understanding Process Performance
Noah D. Weiss, Nicholas J. Nagle, Melvin Tucker, Erik Kuhn, Richard T. Elander

01:20 PM

(406c) How Dilute Acid Pretreatment Produces a Highly Digestible Cellulosic Substrate
David K. Johnson

01:45 PM

(406d) Kinetic Modeling of Lime Pretreatment of Switchgrass
Rocio Sierra, Matthew Falls

02:10 PM

(406e) Cellulose Dissolution in Ionic Liquids: Influence of Ion Structure On β-Glucosidase Stability and Activity
William McDanel

02:35 PM

(406f) Effect of Biomass Size Partitioning On Pretreatment and Enzyme Requirements Using Response Surface Analysis
Swetha Mahalaxmi, Geoffrey Sinning, Clint Williford