Fuels and Chemicals Products: Industrial Bio-based Chemicals

Thursday, May 2, 2013: 1:00 PM-4:30 PM
Grand Ballroom II, Ballroom Level
Convener:
Nathan Danielson - Dupont, Wilmington, DE
Co-Convener:
John Perkins - DSM Food Specialties USA, Inc., Parsippany, NJ
• New routes and targets for biotechnological production of renewable chemicals. • Manufacturing bio-based commodity chemicals from renewable feedstocks. • Development of non-fuel co-products from biorefining process streams. • Production of high-value chemicals or materials from renewable feedstocks.


1:00 PM
Commercialization of a microbial strain for the production of 1,4-butanediol
John D. Trawick and Stephen Van Dien, Genomatica, Inc., San Diego, CA
1:25 PM
Microbial adipic acid production
Hans Marx, Diethard Mattanovich and Michael Sauer, Department of Biotechnology, BOKU - University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
1:50 PM
Production of 1,3 Propandiol, the Vogelbusch process
Josef Modl1, S. Pflügl2, Hans Marx2, Michael Sauer2 and D. Mattanovich2, (1)Vogelbusch GmbH, Vienna, Austria, (2)Department of Biotechnology, University of Natural recources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria
2:15 PM
Break
2:45 PM
Engineering Actinobacillus succinogenes for Succinate Production from Lignocellulosic Hydrolysates and Glycerol
Claire Vieille, Nikolas R. McPherson, Rajasi V. Joshi and Bryan D. Schindler, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
3:10 PM
Direct enzymatic acrylation of maltooligosaccharides
Bianca Ayres, Samuel F Ferreira, Gustavo P Valença and Telma T Franco, Chemical Engineering, State University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
3:35 PM
Lignin derivatives and laccase for active-packaging applications
Sandra Winestrand1, Kristin Johansson2, Thomas Gillgren1, Lars Järnström2 and Leif J. Jönsson1, (1)Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden
4:00 PM
Escherichia coli as a platform for bioelectrosynthesis applications
Aditya Vikram Pandit and Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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