Session 10: Renewable Fuels, Chemicals, and Bio-based Products II - Specialty and Higher Value Chemicals
Wednesday, April 27, 2016: 8:00 AM-11:25 AM
Key Ballroom 3-4, 2nd fl (Hilton Baltimore)
Conveners:
Marina Kalyuzhnaya - San Diego State University and Claus Felby - University of Copenhagen
8:00 AM
Can “fibrillated” nanocellulosic fibers provide high value by-products for a forest based biorefinery?
Keith Gourlay, Jinguang Hu, Prof. Young Hoon Jung, Musavvir Noor and Jack N. Saddler, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
8:25 AM
Polyacid dispersants from lignin
Michael Kent1, Jijiao Zeng1, Nadeya Rader2, Troy Simoes2, Isaac C. Avina2, Nicholas Giron2, Mathias Celina2, Vitalie Stavila3, Mark Allendorf3, Nelson Bell2, Blake A. Simmons4 and Kenneth L. Sale1, (1)Joint BioEnergy Institute, Emeryville, CA, USA, (2)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA, (4)Joint BioEnergy Institute / Sandia National Laboratories, Emeryville, CA, USA
8:50 AM
Comparative study of lignins from grass, residual cereal biomass and wood for conversion to biopolymers
Ms. Anna Suchy1, Dr. Ana Winters1, Dr. David Bryant1, Dr. Lolke Sijtsma2, Dr. Hans Mooibroek2 and Dr. Richard Gosselink2, (1)Aberystwyth University, Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth, United Kingdom, (2)Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
9:15 AM
Break
9:45 AM
Biological Upgrading of Organic Acids to Esters
Donovan Layton, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA and Cong T. Trinh, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA
10:10 AM
Structure and surfactant activities of glycolipids secreted by basidiomycetous yeasts
Kyria L. Boundy-Mills, Luis Garay, Candace Wallin, Irnayuli Sitepu, Tomas Cajka, Kevin (Jian) Xu, Oliver Fiehn, Stephanie Dungan and Charles W. Bamforth, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA
10:35 AM
Value addition to wood hemicellulose hydrolysate by production of xylitol and levulinic acid
Prof. Sudip Rakshit and Mr. Sai Swaroop Dalli, Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada
11:00 AM
Wax esters synthesis as innovative application of microbial oil produced from food industry by-products
Mrs. Aikaterini Papadaki, Mrs. Maria-Nefeli Efthymiou, Dr. Athanasios Mallouchos, Dr. Chryssavgi Gardeli, Dr. Nikolaos Kopsahelis, Dr. Seraphim Papanikolaou and Dr. Apostolis Koutinas, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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