411 Biomass Characterization, Pretreatment and Fractionation

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 8:30 AM
Taylor A (Hilton)
Description:
This session focuses on the characterization of plant-based biomass as well as the fractionation techniques for biorefinery.

Sponsor:
Biorefinery Technologies for Forest Based Lignocellulosic Biomass
Co-Sponsor(s):
Sustainable Biorefineries (23B), Forest and Plant Bioproducts Division (17)

Chair:
G. Peter van Walsum
Email: pvanwalsum@umche.maine.edu

Co-Chair:
Runcang Sun
Email: rcsun003@bjfu.edu.cn

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

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8:30 AM
(411a) Comparative Biochemical Analysis of Biological Pretreatment of Wood Biomass With White Rot Fungi Using Sum Frequency Generation (SFG) Spectroscopy and Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (SIMS)
Alex Rajangam, Kabindra Kafle, Lauren Jackson, Taylor Maher, Kevin Dazen, Christopher Lee, Nicholas Winograd, Seong H. Kim and Wayne Curtis
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8:55 AM
(411b) Upgrading and Pretreatment of Douglas-Fir Forest Residue for Fermentable Sugar Production
Junyong Zhu, Shao-Yuan Leu, Rolland Gleisner, John Sessions and Gevan Marrs

9:20 AM
(411c) Investigation On the Utilization of Grassy Biomass Grown in Heavy Metal Contaminated Soils for the Production of Sugars and Fast Pyrolytic Oil Via a Hybrid Biochemical and Thermochemical Approach
Maria Nydia Ruiz-Felix, William J. Kelly, Ronald Balsamo and Justinus A. Satrio

9:45 AM
(411d) Study of Lignocellulosic Biomass Pretreatment and Its Effect On Product Distribution Using Fast Pyrolysis
Rene Garrido, Joseph Reckamp, Lindsay Peterson, Maria Nydia Ruiz-Felix and Justinus A. Satrio

10:10 AM
(411e) Composition and Structure Analysis of Sweet Sorghum Stalk
Jihong Li, Zhipei Yan and Shi-zhong Li
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10:35 AM
(411f) Optimization of Dilute Acid and Liquid Hot Water Pretreatment of Plantain Rachis for Monomeric Sugars Production
Adriana Ruiz and Andrés Torres
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