Biomass Resource Supply, Development & Characterization: Biomass Supply, Logistics & Sustainability

Tuesday, April 30, 2013: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Ballroom I, Ballroom Level
Convener:
J. Richard Hess - Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID
Co-Convener:
Tim Rials - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
• Improvements in agronomic practices and plant cultivation technologies to enhance the quantity and quality of plant materials as a renewable feedstocks base. • Advances in efficiency or economics of collection and harvesting technologies and supply chain logistics for agricultural and woody biomass types. • Feedstock production life cycle analysis and related sustainability analyses and their validation, including water and land use impacts.


8:00 AM
Moving towards commercialization of lignocellulosic biomass to fuels and chemicals. How to deal with heterogeneous biomass?
Renata Bura1, Shannon Ewanick1, Brian Marquardt2 and Rick Gustafson1, (1)School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, (2)Applied Physics Lab, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
8:25 AM
Effect of pelleting on the recalcitrance and bioconversion of corn stover
Allison E. Ray1, Amber N. Hoover1, Nick J. Nagle2, Xiaowen Chen2 and Garold L. Gresham1, (1)Biofuels & Renewable Energy Technologies, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, (2)National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
8:50 AM
Upgrading Forest Residues of Douglas-fir through Physical Fractionation for Fermentable Sugar Production
John Sessions1, Chao Zhang2, J. Y. Zhu3 and Roland Glesiner3, (1)College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, (2)School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, TianJin University, Tianjin, China, (3)USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI
9:15 AM
Break
9:45 AM
Natural variability of switchgrass and its impact on feedstock quality for bioenergy production
Nicole Labbé, Center for Renewable Carbon, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
10:10 AM
Determining the degradation rate and resulting quality of aerobically-stored high moisture corn stover
Lynn M. Wendt1, Ian J. Bonner2, William A. Smith1 and Kevin L. Kenney2, (1)Biological & Chemical Processing, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, (2)Biofuels & Renewable Energy Technologies, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID
10:35 AM
Increasing biomass production sustainably using natural endosymbionts of poplar
Sharon Lafferty Doty, Jenny Knoth, Zareen Khan and Amy Baum, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
11:00 AM
Techno-economic assessment of pipeline hydro-transportation of agricultural biomass based on experimental research
Mahdi Vaezi and Amit Kumar, Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
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