2013 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Developments in the Pretreatment of Lignocellulosics for Bioconversion I

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

Chair

Subramanian Ramakrishnan, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

Co-Chair

Tae Hyun Kim, Kongju National University

Presentations

08:30 AM

(610a) Understanding Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass With Ionic Liquid-Water Mixtures
Jian Shi, Ramakrishnan Parthasarathi, Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh, Sonny Zhang, Vitalie Stavila, Blake Simmons, Seema Singh

08:55 AM

(610b) Effects of Water-Soluble Polymer Addition On Alkaline Pretreatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Switchgrass
Wenjian Guan, Venkata Ramesh Pallapolu, Y. Y. Lee

09:20 AM

(610c) Combined Dilute Acid and Solvent Based Pretreatment of Agricultural Wastes for Efficient Lignocellulosic Fractionation and Biofuels Production
Subramanian Ramakrishnan, Gary Brodeur, John Telotte, John Collier, Jonathan J. Stickel, Cory Wilson

10:10 AM

(610e) Low-Cost Ionic Liquids for the Delignification of Lignocellulosic Biomass
Jason Hallett, Agnieszka Brandt, S. M. Shahrul Nizan S. Zahari

10:35 AM

(610f) Fractionating Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass As An Entry Into Biomass Refining
Xuebing Zhao, Dehua Liu