Considerations for research, development and commercialization/scale-up of biomass pretreatment processes
Dale Monceaux, AdvanceBio, LLC, Milford, OH and Charles E. Wyman, University of California, Center for Environmental Research and Technology, Riverside, CA

Higher dry matter concentrations in pretreatment and fermentation
Johan W. van Groenestijn, TNO, Zeist, Netherlands

Improved xylan hydrolysis through deacetylation and high solids dilute acid pretreatment of corn stover
Melvin Tucker, Xiaowen Chen and Joe Shekiro, National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO

Break - Sponsored by Sartorius-Stedim

Lewis acid co-catalyzed dilute sulfuric acid pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass
John C. Degenstein, Chemical Engineering, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND, Melvin P. Tucker, Biosciences Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO and Yun Ji, Chemical Engineering, UND, Grand Forks, ND

Optimization of pretreatment conditions for wheat straw in a continuous pretreatment process
Hanne R. Sørensen, Troels Hilstrøm, Mads Pedersen, Rune Skovgaard-Petersen and Marie J. Mikkelsen, BioGasol, Ballerup, Denmark

Direct saccharification and fractionation of lignocellulosic biomass in concentrated salt solution at moderate temperature
Li Shuai, Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI and Xuejun Pan, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

Monitoring the effects of hydrothermal pretreatment on the chemistry and structure of Populus trichocarpa to identify characteristics that affect digestibility
Jaclyn D. DeMartini¹, Sivakumar Pattathil², Utku Avci², Koushik Mazumder², Marcus Foston³, Arthur J. Ragauskas³, Michael G. Hahn² and Charles E. Wyman¹, (1)Chemical & Environmental Engineering, Center for Environmental Research and Technology, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, (2)Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, (3)School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA