Producing high sugar yields from softwood using wet explosion pretreatment
Birgitte K. Ahring, Diwakar Rana, Vandana Rana and Philip Teller, Center for Bioproducts and Bioenergy, Washington State University, Richland, WA

Biomass pretreatment by a continuous flow of superheated steam
Johan W. van Groenestijn and Henk C. van Deventer, TNO, Zeist, Netherlands

Extractive-AFEX (E-AFEX^TM) pretreatment: a unified approach for resolving bottlenecks to efficient cellulosic bioethanol production
Leonardo da Costa Sousa¹, Mingjie Jin², Nirmal Uppugundla², Vijay Bokade³, James F. Humpula², Christa Gunawan², Marcus B. Foston⁴, Ali Azarpira⁵, John Ralph⁵, Bryan D. Bals⁶, Farzaneh Teymouri⁶, Shishir P. S. Chundawat², Bruce E. Dale² and Venkatesh Balan², (1)Department of Chemical Engineering and Material Science, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, (3)Catalysis Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, India, (4)BioEnergy Science Center, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, (5)Department of Biochemistry, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, (6)MBI International, Lansing, MI

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Cellulose solvent-based lignocellulose pretreatment enables efficient pretreatment of mixed feedstocks: Miscanthus and poplar
Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh¹, Ning Sun¹, Y-H. Percival Zhang², Blake A. Simmons¹ and Anthe George¹, (1)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, (2)Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Use of a twin-screw extruder as a mixing tool to promote sugarcane bagasse pretreatment with ionic liquids at high solid contents
Ayla Sant'Ana da Silva¹, Ricardo Sposina Sobral Teixeira¹, Takashi Endo², Elba P. S. Bon¹ and Seung-Hwan Lee², (1)Biochemistry Department, Chemistry Institute, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (2)Biomass Technology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan

Novel ionic liquid and water mixtures for biomass dissolution
Anthe George¹, Zhiwei Chen¹, Ning Sun¹, Vitalie Stavila², Kim Tran³, Seema Singh¹, Kenneth Sale¹, Niall Mac Dowell⁴, Blake Simmons¹, Tom Welton⁵, Brad M. Holmes¹ and Jason P. Hallett⁵, (1)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, (2)Hydrogen and Combustion Technologies, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, (3)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Emeryville, CA, (4)Imperial College London, (5)Chemistry, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom