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Leading Pretreatment Technologies With Corn Stover and Poplar Wood
Program Code:
IND080
Date:
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Time:
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
CHAIR
:
Charles Wyman, Ford Motor Company Professor, University of California
SPEAKER
(S):
Bruce Dale, Professor, Michigan State University
Michael Ladisch, Director, Purdue University
Richard Elander, Advanced Pretreatment Team Leader, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Description
A pretreatment operation is vital to overcome the recalcitrance of biomass to biological attack and achieve low-cost production. Pretreatment also has major impacts on the cost and performance of operations that precede and follow it.
Objectives:
Describe operational features of leading pretreatment technologies.
Examine how these different pretreatments affect enzymatic hydrolysis yields with corn stover and poplar.
Determine how each pretreatment affects fermentability of the sugars released.