2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Advances in Biorefinery Strategies

This session is for discussing recent advances in biorefinery approaches.

Chair

Sunkyu Park, North Carolina State University

Co-Chairs

Xiaowen Chen, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
William Joe Sagues, North Carolina State University
Shri Ramaswamy, University of Minnesota

Presentations

12:30 PM

(167a) Microwave-Assisted Phenolation of Lignin in Black Liquor from Alkaline Pulping
Sk Yasir Arafat Siddiki, Thomas Elder, Zhihua Jiang

12:55 PM

(167b) Fruit Inspired Energy Dissipated Foams from Cellulosic Waste Materials
Emily Gonzales, Tiffany Yu, John Grimble, Bryan Sharkey, David Gamliel, Prakash B. Joshi, Dorin Preda, Chung-Kyu Park, Cing-Dao Kan

01:20 PM

(167c) Tunable Viscosity Modification By Hydrophobe-Modified, Water-Soluble Cellulose Ethers Via a Facile Homogeneous Synthesis
Tyler Weinstein, Nathan Rackstraw, Jaeheon Kim, Jacob Reineke, Ben Reiner, Lyndsay Leal, Kelli Ogawa, Paul J. Dauenhauer, Theresa M. Reineke

01:45 PM

(167d) Nanostructured Carbon from Chemically Modified Bacterial Nanocellulose: A Green Route to Supercapacitor Electrodes
Saehee Lee, Amith Abraham, Byoung-In Sang

02:10 PM

(167e) Novel Pretreatment Depolymerization Predicting Rapid Dissociation of Lignin-Associated Xylan for Valuable Monolignols in Lignocellulose Biorefinery
JIanyu Guan, Shao-Yuan Leu

02:35 PM

(167f) Production and Characterization of a Novel Fish Feed Binder from Acid Hydrolysis of Soybean Hull
Hunter Black