2013 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Developments in the Pretreatment of Lignocellulosics for Bioconversion II

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, Kongju National University

Co-Chair

Subramanian Ramakrishnan, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering

Presentations

12:30 PM

(610d) Residence Time Distribution Measurement and Analysis of Pilot-Scale Pretreatment Reactors for Biofuels Production
David A. Sievers, Erik M. Kuhn, Melvin P Tucker, Jonathan J. Stickel, Ed Wolfrum

12:55 PM

(671b) Recovery of Fermentable Sugars and Pretreatment of Corn Stover By Flow-Through Reactor System
Jun Seok Kim, Tae Hyun Kim, Tae Hoon Kim, Young Jae Jeon

01:20 PM

(671c) Dilute Acid Pretreatment of Deacetylated Corn Stover in a Pilot-Scale Pretreatment Reactor At Low Acid Loadings
Joseph Shekiro, Erik M. Kuhn, Nicholas J. Nagle, Melvin P Tucker, Richard T. Elander, Daniel J. Schell

01:45 PM

(671d) Investigation of the Fate of Switchgrass Lignin Chemical Structures During Ammonia Fiber Expansion, Soaking in Aqueous Ammonia, Dilute Acid, and Ionic Liquid Pretreatment
Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh, Ning Sun, Jian Shi, Chris Canlas, Melvin Tucker, Kang Li, Bruce Dale, Michael E. Himmel, Anthe George, Blake Simmons, Seema Singh

02:10 PM

(671e) Catalytic Oxidative Pretreatment of Woody Biomass At Mild Reaction Conditions and Low Oxidant Loadings
Zhenglun Li, Charles Chen, Namita Bansal, Trey Sato, Eric Hegg, David Hodge

02:35 PM

(671f) A Survey of Wood-Degrading Fungi for Biological Pretreatment of Lignocellulose
Justin T. Kaffenberger, Jonathan S Schilling, Robert A. Blanchette