2010 Annual Meeting

Session: Developments in the Pretreatment of Lignocellulosics for Bioconversion

Explore progress in developing and understanding technologies to prepare cellulosic biomass for conversion by enzymatic hydrolysis using a variety of process configurations.

Chair

Tae Hyun Kim, Iowa State University

Co-Chairs

R. Eric Berson, University of Louisville
Daniel J. Schell, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Presentations

03:15 PM

(325a) Optimizing Pretreatment of Brown Midrib Maize Silage for Effective Fermentation at High Solids Loading
Nathan Mosier, Arun Athmanathan, Peter Friedemann

03:40 PM

(325b) Ionic Liquid-Solvent Mixtures: Enabling Cost-Effective Biomass Pretreatment
E. Kate Brown, Emma Sebeey, Xinglian Geng, Wesley A. Henderson

04:05 PM

(325c) Conversion of Switchgrass Into Fermentable Sugars by Electrolyzed Water Pretreatment and a Two-Stage Pretreatment
Xiaojuan Wang, Hao Feng, Zhiyi Li

04:30 PM

(325d) Isolation and Characterization of Lignin-Modifying Activity of Bacteria From Rainforest Soils
Navaneetha Santhanam, Jorge M. Vivanco, Kenneth F. Reardon, Dayakar V. Badri, Daniel K. Manter, Stephen R. Decker

04:55 PM

(325e) The Effect of Ferrous Ion On High Solids Dilute-Acid Low Severity Steam Explosion Pretreatment of Corn Stover
Xiaowen Chen, Erik Kuhn, Melvin Tucker, Yun Ji

05:20 PM

(325f) Characterization of Process-Relevant Operating Conditions for Alkaline Hydrogen Peroxide Pretreatment of Switchgrass
Daniel L. Williams, Tongjun Liu, David Hodge