Session: Biological Conversions and Processes for Renewable Feedstocks I (2011 Annual Meeting)

Monday, October 17, 2011: 8:30 AM

211 B (Minneapolis Convention Center)

Description:

Explore advances in products and processes based on biologically-mediated catalysis of renewable substrates. Favor papers demonstrating the sound application of core scientific and engineering principles.

Sponsor:

Sustainable Biorefineries

Co-Sponsor(s):

Research and New Technology Committee (18j), Environmental Division (09), Emerging Energy Processes (07B), Bioengineering (15c), Sustainable Energy (23C), Sustainable Engineering Forum (23), Topical B: 1st Annual World Congress on Sustainable Engineering (TB), International Congress on Energy: Biorefinery Technologies for Forest Based Lignocellulosic Biomass (T4B)

Chair:

David Hodge
Email: hodgeda@egr.msu.edu

Co-Chair:

Shishir P. S. Chundawat
Email: chundawa@msu.edu

- indicates paper has an Extended Abstract file available on CD.

8:30 AM

(10a) Fermentation Cost Improvement Through Propagation Advances for a Commercially Relevant Biomass-to-Ethanol Process
Kate Brandon Sutton, B. Emme, L. Jones, S. McHatton, C. Kang, C. Corbett, L. Putnam and M. Torry-Smith

8:51 AM

(10b) Combined Computational and Experimental Investigations of Processive Cellulases for Engineering Activity Improvements
Gregg T. Beckham, Larry Taylor, Michael F. Crowley, William S. Adney and Michael E. Himmel

9:12 AM

(10c) Exploration of Significant Enzyme Activities Required for the Deconstruction of Ionic-Liquid Pretreated Biomass
Christopher J. Barr, Jeffery Mertens and Constance Schall

9:33 AM

(10d) Inhibition of ENZYMATIC Hydrolysis by Soluble Sugars ON MODEL CELLULOSE Thin Film USING QUARTZ CRYSTAL Microbalance
Hsin-Fen Li, Ravinder Garlapalli, Michael D. Flythe, Sue E. Nokes, Stephen E. Rankin and Barbara L. Knutson

9:54 AM

(10e) Selection and Characterization of Acid-Stable Cellulases Against Pretreated Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch From a Colombian Extreme Environment
Luis Miguel Medina, Luisa Cabezas, Isabella Bahamon, Laura Palma, Andrés González and Silvia Restrepo

10:15 AM

(10f) Effect of AFEX Pretreatment Degradation Products On Enzymatic Hydrolysis and Microbial Fermentation by Saccharomyces Cerevisiae 424A(LNH-ST)
Xiaoyu Tang, Leonardo da Costa Sousa, Shishir Chundawat, Mingjie Jin, Lau Ming, James Humpula, Nirmal Uppugundla, Kevin Chambliss, Ramin Vismeh, A. Daniel Jones, Zeyi Xiao, Bruce Dale and Venkatesh Balan

10:36 AM

(10g) Modelling Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation of Microcrystalline Cellulose Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
Josebus M. van Zyl, Thomas M. Harms, Eugéne van Rensburg, Willem H. van Zyl and Lee R. Lynd

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