2010 Annual Meeting

Session: Developments in the Pretreatment of Lignocellulosics for Bioconversion III

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

Chair

R. Eric Berson, University of Louisville

Co-Chairs

Tae Hyun Kim, Iowa State University
Daniel J. Schell, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Presentations

03:15 PM

(532a) Comparisons of SPORL and Dilute Acid Pretreatments for Sugar and Ethanol Productions From Aspen
J.Y. Zhu, Shen Tian, Wenyuan Zhu, Roland Gleisner, Xuejun Pan

03:40 PM

(532b) An Ionic Liquid Pretreatment Process That Includes IL Recycling and a Characterization of Pretreatment Fractions From Corn Stover
Dean Dibble, Chenlin Li, Lan Sun, Peter Benke, Anthe George, Seema Singh

04:05 PM

(532c) Hemicellulose-Lignin Oligomers Dissolution Fundamentals in Hot Water Flowthrough Pretreatment of Cellulosic Biomass
Bin Yang, Lishi Yan

04:30 PM

(532d) Pretreatment of Herbaceous Biomass by Sodium Carbonate in Batch and Percolation Reactors
Urvi D. Kothari, Y.Y. Lee

04:55 PM

(532e) Ionic Liquids and Biomass: Untangling Biomass Dissolution and Pretreatment Efficacy
Xinglian Geng, E. Kate Brown, Wesley A. Henderson

05:20 PM

(532f) Enhanced Xylan Conversion of Process Relevant Dilute Sulfuric Acid Pretreated Corn Stover
Joseph Shekiro III, Erik M. Kuhn, Nick J. Nagle, Richard T. Elander, Melvin Tucker, David A. Sievers, Xiaowen Chen