Preliminary Program subject to change
TB008 Biological Conversion of Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals
OverviewThis session will have papers desribing the technical and economic issues of ethanol as fuel
Primary SponsorTopical B: Energy Processes (TB)
Co-Sponsor(s)Energy Conversion (07f), Emerging Technology (07p), Environmental Division (09), Process Development (09d), Bioengineering (15c), Fuels and Petrochemicals Division (16)

Chair

Donald Meyer
Principal Chemical Engineer
Process Engineering
Burns & McDonnell
9400 Ward Parkway
Kansas City, KS 64114
Phone Number: 816-822-3255
Email: dmeyer@burnsmcd.com

CoChair

Charles D. Tereck
Vice President
KATZEN International, Inc.
2300 Wall Street, Suite K
Cincinnati, OH 45212
Phone Number: 513-351-7500
Fax Number: 513-351-0810
Email: tereck@katzen.com

CoChair

David N. Thompson
Idaho National Laboratory
Biological Sciences Department
P.O. Box 1625
Idaho Falls, ID 83415-2203
Phone Number: (208) 526-3977
Fax Number: (208) 526-0828
Email: david.thompson@inl.gov
Global View of Technical Aspects of Fuel Ethanol Production
Charles D. Tereck, KATZEN International, Inc., 2300 Wall Street, Suite K, Cincinnati, OH 45212
Emerging Technologies for the Production of Biofuels & Biochemicals from Renewables
Ramon Gonzalez, Chem. Engg., RICE, PO Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251
Ethanol Production from Mixed Sugars Derived from Lignocellulosic Biomass by the Rite-Bioprocess
Hideaki Yukawa, Microbiology Research Group, Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), 9-2 Kizugawadai, Kizu-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto, Japan
Broth Rheology and Ethanol Yield for a Zymomonas Mobilis Fermentation with High Substrate Loading
Byung-Hwan Um and Thomas R. Hanley, Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, 149 Ross Hall, Auburn, AL 36849
Ethanol Production from Waste Sweet Potato Using Recombinant Zymomonas Mobilis
M. Nazmul Karim, Chemical Engineering Department, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3121 and Binbing Han, Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX 79409-3121
Metabolic Engineering of Cyanobacteria for Bioenergy Production
Pengcheng Fu and Jason Dexter, Molecular Biosciences and Bioengineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1955 East-West Road, #218, honolulu, HI 96822

Topical B: Energy Processes