Tuesday, May 6, 2008: 8:00 AM-11:30 AM
Grand Ballroom D (Astor Crowne Plaza Hotel)
Session 8: Pretreatment and Biomass Recalcitrance: Fundamentals and Progress 2
Chair:R. Eric Berson
Co-chair:Bruce E. Dale
8:00 AMApplication of leading pretreatment technologies to poplar wood: Sugar recovery, fermentation performance, and cost estimates
Charles Wyman, Bruce E. Dale, Richard T. Elander, Mark T. Holtzapple, Michael R. Ladisch, Y. Y. Lee, Colin Mitchinson, Jack N. Saddler
8:30 AMProfiling of cell wall polymers from wheat straw during pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis using novel microarrays
Ana Alonso-Simon, Jan Bach Kristensen, Henning Jørgensen, Claus Felby, Jens Øbro, William G.T. Willats
9:00 AMDecreasing of recalcitrance of sugarcane bagasse cellulose by steam pretreatment
Luis R M Oliveira, George J M Rocha, Adilson R. Gonçalves
9:30 AMBreak
10:00 AMFundamentals on Size Reduction for Biomass Conversion
J. Y. Zhu, Gaosheng Wang, Xuejun Pan, Roland Glesiner
10:30 AMConiferyl ferulate incorporation into lignin dramatically enhances the delignification and enzymatic hydrolysis of maize cell walls
John H. Grabber, Ronald D. Hatfield, John Ralph, Fachuang Lu
11:00 AMThermodynamics and Kinetics of Competing Reactions of Xylose and Xylooligomers during Dilute Acid Pretreatment from Ab initio Calculations
Xianghong Qian, Haitao Dong, Mark R. Nimlos, Michael E. Himmel, David K. Johnson

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