Monday, May 5, 2008: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Grand Ballroom A-C (Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel)
Session 3: Pretreatment and Biomass Recalcitrance: Fundamentals and Progress 1
Chair:Simo Sarkanen
Co-chair:Percival Zhang
8:00 AMOptimization of Switchgrass Treatment by Cellulose-Solvent-Based Lignocellulose Fractionation at Lower Cellulase Cellulose Hydrolysis
Ian Doran, Geoff Moxley, Zhigang Zhu, Percival Zhang
8:30 AMAutoxidative delignification of woody biomass in ethanol and enzymatic saccharification of the resulting pulp
Yoshiyuki Sasaki, Takashi Endo, Hiroyuki Inoue
9:00 AMThe Influence of Solid/Liquid Separation Techniques on the Sugar Yield in Two-Step Dilute-Acid Pretreatment of Softwood for Bioethanol Production
Sanam Monavari, Mats Galbe, Guido Zacchi
9:30 AMBreak
10:00 AMSubstrate pretreatment: The key to enzymatic hydrolysis by cellulases?
Jack Saddler, Sonia Ghatora, Alexandra Andersson-Roos, Bruno C. Salles, Warren Mabee, Richard P. Chandra
10:30 AMImpact of Surfactants on Pretreatment of Corn Stover
Qing Qing, Michael Studer, Bin Yang, Charles Wyman
11:00 AMEffects of Genetic Modified and Mutant Straws on Bio-ethanol Production
Zhimin Li, Yan Liu, Wei Liao, Anping Jiang, Robert Lee Johnson, Joshua Wilson, Chuanbin Liu, Shulin Chen, Thomas Koehler, Robert Zemetra, Edward J. Souza

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