Thursday, November 8, 2007: 12:30 PM-3:00 PM
Room 250 A (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Topical 4: Sustainable Biorefineries (T4)

#603 - Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass and Interactions with Other Processing Steps II (T4011)
Explore progress in developing and understanding technologies to prepare solid cellulosic biomass for conversion by enzymatic hydrolysis using a variety of process configurations. Included will be updates from investigators in the Biomass Refining Consortium for Applied Fundamentals and Innovation (CAFI).
Chair:G. Peter Van Walsum
CoChair:Constance A. Schall
CoSponsor(s):Forest Products Division (17)
Sustainable Engineering Forum (23)
12:30 PMPerformance Of Alkaline Pretreatment As Affected By Reagent, Mode Of Reaction, And Feedstock Composition
Rajesh Gupta, Y. Y. Lee
12:55 PMHydrolysis of Sucrose in Dilute Sulfuric Acid Solutions at Pretreatment Conditions for Lignocellulosic Biomass
Dan Schell, Ranil Wickramasinghe
1:20 PMKinetics And Modeling Of Xylan Hydrolysis And Xylose Dehydration And Reversion During Acid Pretreatment
Mark R. Nimlos, Heidi M. Pilath, David K. Johnson, Michael E. Himmel, Xianghong Qian, Haitao Dong
1:45 PMSynergistic Hydrolysis Of Afex Treated Corn Stover & Poplar Using Automated 96-Well Microplate Assay
Shishir Chundawat, Venkatesh Balan, Bruce E. Dale
2:10 PMQuantitative Solid-State NMR Characterization of Solid Residues Produced Using Different Acids in the Hydrolysis of Loblolly Pine
Carsten Sievers, Teresita Marzialetti, Travis Hoskins, Mariefel B. Valenzuela, Pradeep K. Agrawal, Christopher W. Jones
2:35 PMDifferences In The Dilute Acid Pretreatment Of Corn Stover Anatomical Fractions
David K. Johnson, David W. Templeton, Todd B. Vinzant, Steven R. Thomas

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