Wednesday, November 19, 2008: 6:00 PM-8:30 PM
Exhibit Hall A (Pennsylvania Convention Center)

Topical 4: Sustainable Biorefineries (T4)

#573 - Poster Session: Sustainability and Sustainable Biorefineries (T4011)
This session will feature posters associated with the Sustainable Engineering Forum and the Sustainable Biorefineries Topical Conference.
Chair:Christopher Perkins
CoChair:Daniel S. Wendt
CoSponsor(s):Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division (20)
Bioengineering (15c)
Forest and Plant Bioproducts Division (17)
Sustainable Engineering Forum (23)
Pretreatment of Rice Straw with Ammonia Recycled Percolation
Choon-Hyoung Kang, Y. Y. Lee
Effects of Dilute Acid Hydrolysis Conditions on Total Sugar Yields from Enzymatic Hydrolysis of North Central Forest Feedstocks
Michael J. Brodeur-Campbell, Jill I. Jensen, Juan Morinelly, David R. Shonnard
Kinetic Characterization of Oligomer Formation and Degradation in Dilute Acid Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass from Forests
Juan Morinelly, Jill R. Jensen, David R. Shonnard
Selection for Improved Hybrid Poplar Via Dilute Acid and Enzymatic Hydrolysis Using Mini-Reactors
Jill R. Jensen, Anwar Aglan, Victor Busov, David R. Shonnard
Effects of Reactor Type on High Solids Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Dilute Acid Pretreated Corn Stover
Christine M. Roche, Jonathan J. Stickel, Richard T. Elander
Equilibrium Adsorption Characteristics of Polysaccharide Adsorbents
Youngmi Kim, Rick Hendrickson, Nathan S. Mosier, Michael R. Ladisch
Fractionating Recalcitrant Miscanthus by a Two-Stage Treatment Under Mild Reaction Conditions
Bin Wang, Xiaojuan Wang, Hao Feng
Enhancing CO-Water Mass Transfer with MCM41 Nanoparticles and Electrolytes
Haiyang Zhu, Brent H. Shanks, Theodore J. Heindel
Use of Immunolabeling to Study Changes in the Distribution of Xylan in the Plant Cell Wall to Better Understand the Process of Xylan Hydrolysis during Dilute Acid Pretreatment
David K. Johnson, Roman Brunecky, Ashutosh Mittal, Todd B. Vinzant, Michael E. Himmel
Improving the Quality of Corn Stover Biomass through Biological Pretreatment
Deepti Tanjore, Tom L. Richard, Megan Marshall
Fractionation and Optimization of Switchgrass Pretreatment Via Cellulose-Solvent-Based Lignocellulose Fractionation (CSLF) at Lower Cellulase Loadings
Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh, Zhiguang Zhu, Y-H. Percival Zhang
Development of Enzyme Magnetic Nanoparticle Complexes for Cellulose Hydrolysis
Hee Joon Park, Patrick A. Johnson
Effect of Mixing on Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulosic Biomass
Yongming Zhu, Brandon Emme, Mads Torry-Smith
Sporl for Robust Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Woody Biomass
J.Y. Zhu
Novel Cell Surface Display on Lactic Acid Bacteria and Its Application to Lactic Acid Production from Starchy Materials
Kenji Okano, Qiao Zhang, Tsutomu Tanaka, Hideki Fukuda, Akihiko Kondo
Bioethanol Production from Barley Hull Using Saa (Soaking in Aqueous Ammonia) Pretreatment
Tae Hyun Kim, Frank Taylor, Kevin B. Hicks
A Preliminary Investigation into the Relative Amount of Enzyme Deactivation from Enzyme-Substrate Interactions and Non-Specific Deactivation
Zhuoliang Ye, R. Eric Berson
The Heterogeneous Catalyst System for the Conversion of Free Fatty Acid In Used Vegetable Oils for the Conventional Production of Biodiesel
Young-Moo Park, Kwan-Young Lee, Joon-Yeob Lee, Jin-Suck Lee, Deog-Keun Kim
The Enzymatic Conversion of Glycerol to Glycerol Carbonate
Kerri A. Cushing, Archana Trivedi, Steven Peretti
Two-Phase Flow Behaviors In Microtube Reactors during Biodiesel Production
Katsuki Kusakabe, Guoqing Guan, Marion Teshima, Nozomi Sakurai
Stochastic Modeling of the Biodiesel Production Process
Sheraz Abbasi, Urmila Diwekar
Synthesis and Analysis of a Flexible Multi-Feedstock Biodiesel Production Process
Grace Nworie, René D. Elms, Mahmoud El-Halwagi
Kinetics of Uncatalyzed Ethyl Esterification of Oleic Acid
Tanawan Pinnarat, Phillip E. Savage
Viscosity Measuring Techniques for Biomass Solids Slurries Using Experimental and Computational Methods
Rajesh K. Dasari, R. Eric Berson
A Simplified Approach to Aspen-Plus© Mass and Energy Balances for Preliminary Process Analysis and Economic Feasibility of Pyrolysis of Switchgrass to Bio-Oil
Frank Taylor, Charles Mullen, Andrew McAloon, Akwasi A. Boateng
Process Optimization for Maximum Ethanol Production Using Different Ethanologens from Afex Treated Rice Straw
Cheng Zhong, Chandraraj Krishnan, Ming-Woei Lau, Venkatesh Balan, Bruce Dale, Ying-jin Yuan
Optimal Allocation of Carbon Resources In An Integrated Biorefinery
Norman E. Sammons Jr., Wei Yuan, Susilpa Bommareddy, Mario R. Eden, Burak Aksoy, Harry T. Cullinan
Life Cycle Assessment of Bio-Oil Production by Pyrolysis of Wood
Heather S. Thomas, Mark Bricka
Cellulase Production from Treated Lignocellulosic Agricultural Residues Supplemented with Paper Sludge
Li Kang, Wei Wang, Y.Y. Lee
Sustainable Fuel for the Brazilian Transportation Sector
Renan P. Oliveira, Navneet R. Singh, Fabio Ribeiro, W. Nicholas Delgass, Rakesh Agrawal
Biorefinery Product Allocation Using a Flexible Optimization Framework
Norman E. Sammons Jr., Wei Yuan, Susilpa Bommareddy, Mario R. Eden, Burak Aksoy, Harry T. Cullinan
Biomass to Syngas Catalysis-Renewable Process for Fischer-Tropsch Liquid Fuels
Savvas Vasileiadis, Zoe Ziaka

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