Mechanism based technology for pretreating agricultural residues to produce advanced biofuels
Mahesh V. Bule, Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA and Shulin Chen, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA

Providing an optimized pretreatment methodology for utilizing low cost forest slash in biorefineries
Philip Teller and Birgitte K. Ahring, Center for Bioproducts and Bioenergy, Washington State University, Richland, WA

Improved pretreatment with Cu(bpy)-catalyzed oxidation
Zhenglun Li¹, Charles H. Chen¹, Vaidyanathan Mathrubootham², Tongjun Liu³, Alexander Toulokhonov², Eric L. Hegg² and David Hodge¹, (1)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (2)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, (3)Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

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Mechanical refining to enhance enzymatic hydrolysis of pretreated biomass
Brandon Jones, Richard Venditti, Hasan Jameel and Sunkyu Park, Department of Forest Biomaterials, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC

Evaluation of Hot-Compressed Water Pretreatment with Wet Disk Milling of Japanese Hinoki and Eucalyptus using SSF and CBP Bioconversion Processes
Shunsuke Kawamura¹, Miguel Rodriguez Jr.², Seung-Hwan Lee³ and Jonathan R. Mielenz², (1)Biomass Technology Research Center, National institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, HigashiHiroshima, Japan, (2)Biosciences Division and BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, (3)Department of Forest Biomaterials Engineering, Colleage of Forest and Environmental Sciences Kangwon National University, Chunchen, South Korea

Assessment of different conditions of the hydrothermal pretreatment of sugarcane straw and its influence on the enzymatic hydrolysis stage
Naila Mori, Biotechnology Department, Engineering School of Lorena- EEL-USP, Lorena-SP, Brazil and Adilson Roberto Gonçalves, University of São Paulo and Brazilian Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory, Lorena and Campinas, Brazil

Unmasking the Recalcitrance of Hardwoods and Methods for Improving AFEX^TM Pretreatment Effectiveness
Rebecca Garlock Ong, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, DOE Great Lakes Bioenegy Research Center, Lansing, MI and Bruce E. Dale, Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Lansing, MI