Wednesday, April 21, 2010: 8:00 AM-12:00 PM
Salon F-G (Hilton Clearwater Beach)
Session 8: Biomass Pretreatment and Fractionation
Chair:Bin Yang
Co-chair:Michael Ladisch
8:00 AM8-01Effects of pretreatment technologies, enzyme formulations, enzyme loadings and biomass type on sugar yields and costs for coupling of leading pretreatments with enzymatic hydrolysis
Charles Wyman, Bruce Dale, Richard Elander, Mark T. Holtzapple, Michael Ladisch, Y. Y. Lee, Ryan Warner, Bonnie Hames
8:30 AM8-02Comparison of cell wall structure, recalcitrance and saccharification of corn stover pretreated by ammonia fiber expansion and ionic liquid
Chenlin Li, Lan Sun, Gang Cheng, Michael Kent, Venkatesh Balan, Bruce Dale, Blake Simmons, Seema Singh
9:00 AM8-03Xylose production and degradation during acid pretreatment of biomass
Mark R. Nimlos, Heidi M. Pilath, Xianghong Qian, Michael E. Himmel, David K. Johnson
9:30 AM Coffee Break Sponsored by Energy Biosciences Institute
10:00 AM8-04A Perspective on Pretreatment Chemistry: What We Know and Need to Know
Arthur J. Ragauskas, Yunqiao Pu, Seokwon Jung, Marcus Foston, Poulomi Sannigrahi, Angela Ziebell, Mark Davis, Fang Chen, Richard A. Dixon, Brian H. Davison, Michael H. Studer, Charles E. Wyman
10:30 AM8-05Pretreatment with alkali and oxygen to produce highly hydrolysable cellulose
Matti Siika-aho, Anne Kallioinen, Maija Hakola, Tarja Tamminen, Anikó Várnai, Timo Repo, Niklas von Weymarn, Liisa Viikari, Markku Leskelä
11:00 AM8-06Pretreatment and fermentation at high dry matter concentrations
Johan W. van Groenestijn, Arno H. van de Kant
11:30 AM8-06aBiological pretreatment of softwood biomass for biofuel production using brown rot fungi.
Richard Murphy, Michael J. Ray, David J. Leak, Pietro D. Spanu, Nilay Shah, Mark A. Wyatt, Nick M. Brooks

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