14: Pretreatment & Fractionation III

Thursday, May 3, 2012: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Napoleon Ballroom A and B, 3rd fl (Sheraton New Orleans)
Chair:
Luiz P. Ramos
8:00 AM
Producing high sugar yields from softwood using wet explosion pretreatment
Birgitte K. Ahring, Diwakar Rana, Vandana Rana and Philip Teller, Center for Bioproducts and Bioenergy, Washington State University, Richland, WA
9:00 AM
Extractive-AFEX (E-AFEXTM) pretreatment: a unified approach for resolving bottlenecks to efficient cellulosic bioethanol production
Leonardo da Costa Sousa1, Mingjie Jin2, Nirmal Uppugundla2, Vijay Bokade3, James F. Humpula2, Christa Gunawan2, Marcus B. Foston4, Ali Azarpira5, John Ralph5, Bryan D. Bals6, Farzaneh Teymouri6, Shishir P. S. Chundawat2, Bruce E. Dale2 and Venkatesh Balan2, (1)Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, (3)Catalysis Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, (4)BioEnergy Science Center, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, (5)Department of Biochemistry, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (6)MBI International, Lansing, MI
9:30 AM
Break, Napoleon Foyer, 3rd fl
10:00 AM
Cellulose solvent-based lignocellulose pretreatment enables efficient pretreatment of mixed feedstocks: Miscanthus and poplar
Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh1, Ning Sun1, Y-H. Percival Zhang2, Blake A. Simmons1 and Anthe George1, (1)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, (2)Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
10:30 AM
Use of a twin-screw extruder as a mixing tool to promote sugarcane bagasse pretreatment with ionic liquids at high solid contents
Ayla Sant'Ana da Silva1, Ricardo Sposina Sobral Teixeira1, Takashi Endo2, Elba P. S. Bon1 and Seung-Hwan Lee2, (1)Biochemistry Department, Chemistry Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (2)Biomass Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan
11:00 AM
Novel ionic liquid and water mixtures for biomass dissolution
Anthe George1, Zhiwei Chen1, Ning Sun1, Vitalie Stavila2, Kim Tran3, Seema Singh1, Kenneth Sale1, Niall Mac Dowell4, Blake Simmons1, Tom Welton5, Brad M. Holmes1 and Jason P. Hallett5, (1)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, (2)Hydrogen and Combustion Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, (3)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, (4)Imperial College London, (5)Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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