Industrial Biotechnology

From Biochemical Engineering to Synthetic Biology: A Short History of Engineering Impacts on Biotechnology

SBE Webinar

Sep 27, 2012

Harvey Blanch

This webinar will focus on how biochemical engineering developed in response to the need for large-scale production of antibiotics in the 1940s and 50s, even though fermentation provided a route to many industrial organic chemicals prior to their production from petroleum.

Biological Synthesis of Fuels and Chemicals

SBE Webinar

Jul 22, 2010

James Liao

Global energy and climate problems have stimulated increased efforts in synthesizing fuels and chemicals from renewable resources.

From Biomass to Biofuels: Breaking the Cellulose Barrier

SBE Webinar

Oct 5, 2011

Douglas Clark

Cellulases are of considerable current interest for converting the cellulosic content of biomass to fermentable sugars for biofuels production.

Systems Metabolic Engineering

SBE Webinar

Apr 22, 2010

Sang Yup Lee

As our concerns on global warming and other environmental problems are increasing, there has been much interest in developing sustainable system for the production of chemicals, fuels, and materials from renewable resources.

Industrial Systems Biology

SBE Webinar

Aug 25, 2009

Jens Nielsen

Cell factories are used extensively to produce many specific molecules used as pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, fuels, materials and food ingredients.

Designing Efficient Metabolic Networks for Biofuels Production

SBE Webinar

Jun 25, 2009

Friedrich Srienc

Biotechnological processes depend to a large extent on the productivity of the organisms used.

Effects of Reaction Conditions On the Acid-Catalyzed Hydrolysis of Miscanthus Dissolved In An Ionic Liquid

Oct 19, 2011

Sean J. Dee

Miscanthus, a perennial grass, is an attractive biofuel feedstock compared with corn and poplar due to its high energy yield per hectare and low agricultural inputs such as water and soil nutrients. Recent studies have shown the three primary components of miscanthus, cellulose, hemicellulose, and...

A Novel Reactive Distillation Approach for Producing 1,3-Dihydroxyacetone From Glycerol

Oct 19, 2011

Dennis J. Miller

Glycerol is a viable renewable feedstock that has emerged as a consequence of triglyceride conversion to biodiesel. In addition to glycerol conversion to commodity chemicals such as propylene glycol and epichlorohydrin, formation of higher-value specialty chemical products such as 1,3-...

Green and High Efficient Enzyme Hydrolysis Process for Sweet Sorghum Bagasse

Oct 19, 2011

Xinshu Zhuang

In order to improve enzymatic hydrolysis efficiency, several approaches including liquid hot water (LHW) pretreatment, adding surfactant, magnetic stirring and fed-batch hydrolysis were investigated, in which Sweet sorghum bagasse (SSB) was chosen as the feedstock. The experiment results showed...

Production of Concentrated Monosaccharride Solutions From Biomass Using CO2-H2O Mixtures At Varying Temperatures

Oct 18, 2011

Jeremy S. Luterbacher

Sustainably producing concentrated solutions of monosaccharrides from biomass is a key bottleneck in the conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to biofuels or bioproducts. Most pretreatment and enzymatic hydrolysis processes are run at low-solid concentration (<10 wt%) and use chemical catalysts...

Synthesis of Green Diesel Fuel From Fatty Acid Feedstocks Via Electrochemical Hofer-Moest Decarboxylation

Oct 18, 2011

Cody Wagner

Production of biodiesel by esterification or transesterification of long-chain fatty acids is a well known process, but the fuel product has characteristics making it not fully compatible with petroleum diesel engines. A better option is to convert fatty acid molecules to hydrocarbons by removing...

Comparison of Chemical and Biological Delignification of Cardboard

Oct 18, 2011

Estefania Isaza

Some processes aimed to biofuels production, use lignocellulosic wastes as feedstocks for fermentative conversion. If this is the case, pretreatment is required to make these resources fully digestible. Among a wide range of pretreatment options, this study focuses and compares oxidative-alkaline...

An Integrated Lipid-Based Platform for “Drop-In” Fuel Biorefinery

Oct 18, 2011

Shulin Chen

A major challenge in developing biorefinery is that the availability of biomass often limits the scale of the plant thus the feasibility of an operation. We proposed an integrated lipid-based platform as one technical option. According to this concept, different biomass resources will be first...

Isoconversional Methods Applied to Kinetic Modeling Oxidative Alkaline Pretreatment of Sugarcane Bagasse

Oct 18, 2011

Rocio Sierra

Delignification (decrease of lignin content) has shown to be a valid method to significantly increase lignocellulosic feedstocks digestibility. This operation (widely known as pretreatment) makes these abundantly available and inexpensive feedstocks usable in fermentation processes whose main goal...

Triacylglycerol Production From Corn Stover Silage Using a Xylose-Fermenting Rhodococcus Opacus Strain

Oct 18, 2011

Kazuhiko Kurosawa

Background: Biodiesel, monoalkyl esters of long-chain fatty acids attached to short-chain alcohols derived from triacylglycerols (TAGs), can be produced from renewable biomass sources. There has been interest in producing TAGs from oleaginous microorganisms. As published recently (J Biotechnol...

Realizing the Potential of Advanced Biofuels

Oct 18, 2011

Thomas Foust

Advanced biofuels or drop-in fuels is the terminology used to refer to hydrocarbon fuels that are direct replacements or supplements for existing gasoline, diesel and jet fuels currently refined from conventional petroleum feedstocks. Drop-in fuels from biomass will need to meet all of the refinery...

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