2013 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Biomass Characterization, Pretreatment and Fractionation

This session focuses on the characterization of plant-based biomass as well as the fractionation techniques for biorefinery.

Chair

G. Peter van Walsum, University of Maine

Co-Chair

Runcang Sun, Beijing Forest University

Presentations

08:30 AM

(411a) Comparative Biochemical Analysis of Biological Pretreatment of Wood Biomass With White Rot Fungi Using Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) Spectroscopy and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS)
Alex Rajangam, Kabindra Kafle, Lauren Jackson, Taylor Maher, Christopher Lee, Kevin Dazen, Nicholas Winograd, Seong H. Kim, Wayne Curtis

08:55 AM

(411b) Upgrading and Pretreatment of Douglas-Fir Forest Residue for Fermentable Sugar Production
Junyong Zhu, Shao-Yuan Leu, Rolland Gleisner, John Sessions, Gevan Marrs

09:20 AM

(411c) Investigation On the Utilization of Grassy Biomass Grown in Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils for the Production of Sugars and Fast Pyrolytic Oil Via a Hybrid Biochemical and Thermochemical Approach
Maria Nydia Ruiz-Felix, William J. Kelly, Ronald Balsamo, Justinus Satrio

09:45 AM

(411d) Study of Lignocellulosic Biomass Pretreatment and Its Effect On Product Distribution Using Fast Pyrolysis
Rene Garrido, Joseph Reckamp, Lindsay Peterson, Maria Nydia Ruiz-Felix, Justinus Satrio

10:10 AM

(411e) Composition and Structure Analysis of Sweet Sorghum Stalk
Jihong Li, Zhipei Yan, Shi-zhong Li

10:35 AM

(411f) Optimization of Dilute Acid and Liquid Hot Water Pretreatment of Plantain Rachis for Monomeric Sugars Production
Adriana Ruiz, Andrés Torres