Session 13: Pretreatment and Fractionation III: Ionic Liquids and Organic Solvents
Thursday, April 30, 2015: 8:00 AM-11:25 AM
Aventine Ballroom G, Ballroom Level
Conveners:
Seema Singh - Joint BioEnergy Institute / Sandia National Laboratories, Emeryville, CA and Jose Antonio Perez - Autonomous University of Nayarit, Tepic, Mexico,



8:00 AM
Scale-up and process integration of sugar production by acidolysis of single and mixed feedstocks in ionic liquids
Dr. Chenlin Li1, Ling Liang1, Dr. Ning Sun2, Dr. Feng Xu3, Dr. Vicki S. Thompson4, Akash Narani1, Qian He1, Tina Luong1, Dr. Deepti Tanjore1, Dr. Todd Pray1, Blake Simmons5 and Seema Singh5, (1)Advanced Biofuels (and Bioproducts) Process Demonstration Unit (AB-PDU), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, (2)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, (3)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute/ Sandia National Lab, Emeryville, CA, (4)Biological and Chemical Processing, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, (5)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute / Sandia National Laboratories, Emeryville, CA
8:25 AM
Co-solvent enhanced lignocellulosic fractionation (CELF): a novel and versatile pretreatment to increase yields from biological or catalytic biorefining
Charles E. Wyman1, Thanh Yen Nguyen2, Vanessa Lutzke3, Rajeev Kumar4 and Charles Cai3, (1)Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Center for Environmental Research and Technology, Bourns College of Engineering, University of California Riverside, and BioEnergy Science Center, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Riverside, CA, (2)Bioengineering Department and Center for Environmental Research and Technology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA, (3)Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Center for Environmental Research and Technology, University of California, Riverside and BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), Riverside, CA, (4)Center for Environmental Research and Technology, University of California, Riverside and BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), Riverside, CA
8:50 AM
Pretreatment and saccharification of cassava stems – effects of preparatory starch hydrolysis and comparison of pretreatment using sulfuric acid and ionic liquid
Dr. Carlos Martín Medina1, Prof. Shaojun Xiong2, Dr. Maogui Wei2 and Prof. Leif J. Jönsson1, (1)Department of Chemistry, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden, (2)Department of Forest Biomaterials and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden
9:15 AM
Break
9:45 AM
A comparative evaluation of agave bagasse in function of autohydrolysis, AFEX and ionic liquid pretreatment
Jose A. Perez-Pimienta1, Carlos A. Flores-Gomez2, Héctor A. Ruiz3, Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh4, Venkatesh Balan2, Leonardo Sousa2, Bruce Dale2, Seema Singh5 and Blake Simmons5, (1)Chemical Engineering, Autonomous University of Nayarit, Tepic, Mexico, (2)Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Michigan State University, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Lansing, MI, (3)Biorefinery Group/Food Research Department, Autonomous University of Coahuila, Saltillo, Mexico, (4)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, (5)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute / Sandia National Laboratories, Emeryville, CA
10:10 AM
Novel solid acid catalysts for cellulose hydrolysis and dehydration
Prof. Xianghong Qian1, Ahn Vu2 and Prof. Ranil Wickramasinghe2, (1)Biomedical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, (2)Chemical Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR
10:35 AM
Glycell – Leaf Resources' pretreatment process for the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to fuels and chemicals
Dr. Les Edye, Leaf Resources Ltd, Eight Mile Plains, Queensland, Australia and Alex Baker, Leaf Resources Ltd
11:00 AM
Impact of municipal solid waste paper mix as a blending agent on enzymatic hydrolysis and acidolysis
Dr. Feng Xu1, Dr. Ning Sun2, Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh2, Dr. Vicki S. Thompson3, Dr. Chenlin Li4, Dr. Deepti Tanjore4, Dr. Todd Pray4, Blake Simmons5 and Seema Singh5, (1)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute/ Sandia National Lab, Emeryville, CA, (2)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, (3)Biological and Chemical Processing, Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, (4)Advanced Biofuels (and Bioproducts) Process Demonstration Unit (AB-PDU), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, (5)Deconstruction Division, Joint BioEnergy Institute / Sandia National Laboratories, Emeryville, CA
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