2010 Annual Meeting

Session: Biorefinery - Biochemical Conversion and Biomass Recalcitrance

This session will focus on technology and processes to reduce the recalcitrance of cellulose in forest based biomass. Novel technologies involve the application of electron beams, other high energy ionizing radiation, ionic liquid solvents and biochemical catalysts.

Chair

Shijie Liu, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Co-Chair

Tracy Benson, Lamar University

Presentations

08:30 AM

(387a) On Polydispersity of Plant Biomass Recalcitrance and Its Effects On Pretreatments
J.Y. Zhu

08:55 AM

(387b) Application of An Integrated High Throughput Pretreatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis (HTPH) Screening Tool to Investigate Radial Variation in Populus
Jaclyn D. DeMartini, Charles E. Wyman

09:20 AM

(387c) Bioconversion of Lignocellulose Into Bioethanol: Process Intensification and Mechanism Research
Rongxin Su, Mingjia Zhang, Wei Qi, Zhimin He

09:45 AM

(387d) Ionic Liquid Solvent Properties as Predictors of Lignocellulose Pretreatment Efficacy
Thomas V. Doherty, J. Mauricio Mora-Pale, Sage E. Foley, Jonathan S. Dordick

10:10 AM

(387e) Enzymatic Bioprocessing of Biomass in NMMO and Ionic Liquids
John Collier, Submanian Ramakrishnan, Samuel C. Grant, Rilwan Oyetunji, Brett Robbins, Gary Brodeur, Kimberly Badal, Daniel Morales, Elizabeth Yau

10:35 AM

(387f) Comparative Molecular Dynamics Study of Cellulose I-Beta and III(I) Allomorphs
Giovanni Bellesia, Shishir Chundawat, Paul Langan, Sandrasegaram Gnanakaran