Wednesday, November 7, 2007: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM
Room 355 E (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Topical 4: Sustainable Biorefineries (T4)

#382 - Sustainable Biorefineries Plenary Session Invited Papers (T4008)
Visionary talks (invited) will outline commercial, governmental, or academic efforts to advance multi-product biorefineries. Topics likely to be addressed include: development or improvement -- including conceptual analysis and life cycle assessments -- of renewable feedstocks-based multiproduct biorefineries, i.e., based on starch or oil crops and/or lignocellulosic biomass; development of enabling catalytic and/or separative processes; discovery or development of enabling enzyme or fermentative/microbial technologies or bio-based materials.
Chair:David N. Thompson
CoChair:Bruce S. Dien
CoSponsor(s):Bioengineering (15c)
Forest Products Division (17)
Sustainable Engineering Forum (23)
8:30 AMBiofuels and Biobased Products – Making Them Competitive and Sustainable
Robert L. Fireovid
9:00 AMStrategic Assessment of Prospective Biomass-to-Biofuel (B2B) Conversion Processes
Gregory Stephanopoulos
9:30 AMSustainable Production of Liquid Transportation Fuels from Biomass - from Fields to Wheels
Paul F. Bryan
10:00 AMSecond Generation Biofuels and Biochemicals: An Industry Perspective
Todd A. Werpy, Paul Bloom, Michael Pacheco
10:30 AMCellulose-to-Ethanol Technology: An Update from Iogen
Glenn D. Munkvold

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