608 Advances In Biofuels: DOE Bioenergy Research Centers I

Thursday, November 1, 2012: 8:30 AM
335 (Convention Center )
Description:
This session will report on resent progress made at the three DOE Bioenergy Research Centers. These three centers were established in 2007 by the DOE to accelerate the development of renewable fuels. Topics covered will include plant production, cell wall engineering, advanced pretreatment processes, and enzyme and microbial biocatalyst development. Papers will be limited to researchers associated with one of the three centers.

Sponsor:
Sustainable Biorefineries
Co-Sponsor(s):
Bioengineering (15c), ICE 2012: Biorefinery Technologies for Forest Based Lignocellulosic Biomass (T4A), Topical B: 2nd Annual World Congress on Sustainable Engineering (TB), ICE2012: BioFuels (T4F)

Chair:
Seema Singh
Email: seesing@sandia.gov

Co-chairs:
Venkatesh Balan
Email: balan@egr.msu.edu

Marcus Foston
Email: marcus.foston@gmail.com


8:30 AM
(608a) Sustainability of Biofuel Production Systems
Douglas J. Reinemann

8:55 AM
(608b) Neutron Reflectometry, QCM-D , and TIRF Study of the Interaction of Endoglucanases with Films of Amorphous Cellulose
Michael Kent

9:20 AM
(608c) Understanding and Redesigning Secondary Cell Wall Deposition in Plants
Dominique Loque

9:45 AM
(608d) Plausible Implications of Hemicellulose Precipitation On Cellulose Digestibility for Hydrothermal and Low Severity Dilute Acid Pretreatments of Cellulosic Biomass
Rajeev Kumar and Charles Wyman

10:10 AM
(608e) Development of the Extractive-AFEXTM (E-AFEXTM) Pretreatment Process
Shishir Chundawat, Leonardo da costa Sousa, Venkatesh Balan, Vijay Bokade, Mingjie Jin, Nirmal Uppugundla, James Humpula and Bruce E. Dale

10:35 AM
(608f) ORNL: Initial Binding of a Cellulose Chain Into the Cellulase Catalytic Tunnel
Pavan GhattyVenkataKrishna, Edward Uberbacher and Xiaolin Cheng
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