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

van Walsum, G. P., University of Maine

Co-Chair

Sun, R., 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)

08:55 AM

(411b) Upgrading and Pretreatment of Douglas-Fir Forest Residue for Fermentable Sugar Production

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

09:45 AM

(411d) Study of Lignocellulosic Biomass Pretreatment and Its Effect On Product Distribution Using Fast Pyrolysis

10:10 AM

(411e) Composition and Structure Analysis of Sweet Sorghum Stalk

10:35 AM

(411f) Optimization of Dilute Acid and Liquid Hot Water Pretreatment of Plantain Rachis for Monomeric Sugars Production