Conversion Technologies (Deconstruction or Synthesis): Bioprocessing & Separations Technology

Monday, April 29, 2013: 1:00 PM-5:00 PM
Grand Ballroom I, Ballroom Level
Convener:
Steve Toon - OPXBIO, Boulder, CO
Co-Convener:
Abhijeet P. Borole - Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
• Advances in the performance assessment and scale up demonstration of integrated bioconversion processes (bench, pilot, and larger scales). • Improvements in materials handling, continuous high solids processing, and upstream biorefining separations processes. • Development of more efficient and downstream product separation and recovery strategies. • Progress in in situ product recovery or biocatalyst recycle. • Advances in merging thermochemical processes with biological conversion.


1:00 PM
Development of Tumbling Pretreatment Reactor and Hydrolyser System for Producing Sterile Hydrolysate
V. Balan, da Costa Sousa Leonardo, Humpula James, Mingjie Jin and Dale Bruce, Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
1:50 PM
Investigation of operation strategies and models for continuous Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation (cSSF)
YI Jin, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Bourns College of Engineering, Center for Environmental Research and Technology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, Rajeev Kumar, Center for Environmental Research and Technology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA and Charles E. Wyman, University of California, Center for Environmental Research and Technology, Riverside, CA
2:15 PM
Break
2:45 PM
Recovery and chemical upgrading of succinate and other carboxylates integrated with their fermentative production
Camilo S. López-Garzón, Luuk A.M. van der Wielen and Adrie J.J. Straathof, Department of Biotechnology, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands
3:10 PM
High-rate hydrogen production from biomass sugars via cell-free metabolic engineering
Joseph A. Rollin1, Julia Martin del Campo2, Suwan Myung1 and Y.H. Percival Zhang1, (1)Biological Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, (2)Applied Physics Department, Cinvestav-Mérida, Mérida, Mexico
3:35 PM
Integrated Cellulosic Ethanol Production - Historical Progress and Recent Pilot Scale Demonstrations
Daniel J. Schell, National Bioenergy Center, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, CO
4:00 PM
Hydrogen production from waste in biorefinery
Abhijeet P. Borole, Biosciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN
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