2014 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Biochemical Conversion Processes in Forest/Plant Biomass Biorefineries I

This session deals with the biochemical conversions of plant-based biomass to liquid fuel and chemicals.

Chair

Shijie Liu, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

Co-Chairs

Zhiliang (Julia) Fan, University of California, Davis
Bo Hu, University of Minnesota

Presentations

08:30 AM

(239a) Extracellular PHA Production from Woody Biomass
Emma E Putman, Chenhui Liang, Yuanzhen Wang, Shijie Liu

08:55 AM

(239b) Strategies to Achieve High-Solid Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Pretreated Corn Stover
Wenhui Geng, Yongcan Jin, Hasan Jameel, Sunkyu Park

09:20 AM

(239c) Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Waste Rejects from OCC Mills – Effect of Minerals and Optimal Methods to Reduce Inhibition
Byeong Cheol Min, Bandaru V. Ramarao

09:45 AM

(239d) Engineering Escherichia coli for Direct Ethanol Production from Cellobionate
Eric Walters, Zhiliang (Julia) Fan, Takao Kasuga

10:10 AM

(239e) Advances in Enzymes for Commercial Cellulosic Biomass Processing
Vinod Srinivasan