Twenty-Seventh Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals

Abstract

This conference proceedings contains 55 papers which are divided into sessions entitled Thermal and Chemical Processing, Applied microbial research, Innovative systems bioconversion, Bioprocess engineering, and Bioprocess monitoring and Control systems. Topics presented include wood gasification, oil from biomass, pyrolysis, thermochemical degradation, steam explosion, biomass gasification, alcohol, acid hydrolysis of sugarcane, methanogenic bacteria, solvent production, Xylanase, lignin bioconversion, arabinose utilization, baker's yeast, ethanol, butanediol, fermentation, digestion, plant cell biochemicals, blue-green algae, aldehydes, hemicelluloses, petroleum formation, phenol, proteins, supports, pulp fermentation, chitin, enzyme stabilization, cellulose digestion, lignocellulose, liquid chromatography, reverse osmosis, butanol, acetone, gas turbines, ethylene glycol, polyols, phase separations, waste conversion, oxygen microelectrodes, and filtration. Refs.