36th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals (April 28-May 1, 2014)

April 28 - May 01, 2014

Fuel production from AFEX^TM pretreated biomass: current status and future perspectives
Mingjie Jin¹, Venkatesh Balan², Cory Sarks¹, Leonardo Sousa³, Christa Gunawan¹, Saisi Xue¹, Yaping Xue⁴, Andrea Orjuela¹ and Bruce Dale³, (1)Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC), Michigan State University, Lansing, MI, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science,, Michigan State University and University of Pune, Lansing, MI, (3)Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Lansing, MI, (4)Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

Development of an integrated approach to using ionic liquids for terpene recovery from loblolly pine
Gabriella Papa¹, James Kirby¹ and Blake Simmons², (1)University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, (2)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA

Pretreatment for cellulosic ethanol production in the developing world
Sune Tjalfe Thomsen¹, Jorge Enrique Gonzalez Londońo¹, Jens Ejbye Schmidt² and Zsófia Kádár¹, (1)Department of Chemical and Biochemical Engineering,, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark, (2)Institute Center for Energy (iEnergy), Masdar Institute for Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Ternary aqueous ionic liquid system for the pretreatment of mixed agave bagasse and municipal solid waste
Jose A. Perez-Pimienta¹, Ma. Teresa Ponce-Noyola¹, Seema Singh² and Blake A. Simmons³, (1)Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Mexico City, Mexico, (2)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, (3)Vice-President, Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA

Molten Salt Hydrate System as a Platform for Saccharification and Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Sugars, Chemicals, and Fuels
Xuejun Pan, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI

Dielectric barrier discharge plasma on water to decrease recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass
Lucia Vieira Santos¹, Felipe S. Miranda¹, Roberson José da Silva¹, Rodrigo Savio Pessoa¹, Sarita Candida Rabelo², Chanel Moacyr de Carli², Homero dos Santos Maciel¹, Carlos Eduardo Vaz Rossell² and José Geraldo da Cruz Pradella², (1)Instituto de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento (IP&D), UNIVAP, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil, (2)Brazilian Laboratory of Science and Technology of Bioethanol - CTBE, Campinas, Brazil

The effect of alkali pretreatment on biomass surface properties affecting cellulase accessibility to cellulose
Nardrapee Karuna¹, Lu Zhang², Jeffrey H. Walton³, Mecit H. Oztop¹, Marie Couturier⁴, Emma R. Master⁴, Michael J. McCarthy² and Tina Jeoh⁵, (1)Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, (2)Department of Food Science & Technology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, (3)UC Davis NMR Facility, Biomedical Engineering Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA, (4)Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (5)Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA