Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals: The Thirty-First Symposium [Paperback]

In Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals: The Thirty-First Symposium, leading researchers from academia, industry, and government offer surveys and reviews of their cutting-edge research and latest applications in the production of fuels and chemicals through biotechnology. The book's focus is on how best to improve and optimize these technologies and their economics to produce the fuels and chemicals so vital to many industrial sectors.

Forward-looking and authoritative, this book provides an illuminating overview of current research and development in the production of commodity fuels and chemicals from renewable biomass resources via biochemical and thermochemical routes.

Forward-looking and authoritative, Biotechnology for Fuels and Cells: The Thirty-First Symposium provides an illuminating overview of current research and development in the production of commodity fuels and chemicals from renewable biomass resources via biochemical and thermochemical routes.SESSION 3: BIOMASS PRETREATMENT AND FRACTIONATIONThe Effect of Varying Organosolv Pretreatment Chemicals on the Physicochemical Properties and Cellulolytic Hydrolysis of Mountain Pine Beetle-Killed Lodgepole PineL.F. Del Rio I R.P. Chandra I J.N. SaddlerOptimizing Dilute-Acid Pretreatment of Rapeseed Straw for Extraction of HemicelluloseT.-S. Jeong I B.-H. Um I J.-S. Kim I K.-K. OhCompositional Changes in Sugarcane Bagasse on Low Temperature, Long-term Diluted Ammonia TreatmentM. Kim I G. Aita I D.F. DayProduction of Sugars and Levulinic Acid from Marine Biomass Gelidium amansiiG.-T. Jeong I D.-H. ParkBioconversion of Kraft Paper Mill Sludges to Ethanol by SSF and SSCFL. Kang I W. Wang I Y.Y. LeeDilute Ammonia Pretreatment of Sorghum and Its Effectiveness on Enzyme Hydrolysis and Ethanol FermentationD.A. Salvi I G.M. Aita I D. Robert I V. BazanSESSION 6: MICROBIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGYDevelopment of Real-Time PCR Primer and Probe Sets for Detecting Degenerated and Non-dl"