Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals Held May 4–7, 2003, in Breckenridge, CO

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Feedstock Supply, Logistics, Processing, and Composition....Pages 3-4
Designing an Effective Federal Biomass Program....Pages 5-12
Methodology for Estimating Removable Quantities of Agricultural Residues for Bioenergy and Bioproduct Use....Pages 13-26
Pipeline Transport of Biomass....Pages 27-39
Hydrodynamic Separation of Grain and Stover Components in Corn Silage....Pages 41-54
A New Class of Plants for a Biofuel Feedstock Energy Crop....Pages 55-70
Fungal Upgrading of Wheat Straw for Straw-Thermoplastics Production....Pages 71-93
Economic Analysis of Ethanol Production in California Using Traditional and Innovative Feedstock Supplies....Pages 95-110
Enzyme Catalysis and Engineering....Pages 113-113
Dynamics of Cellulase Production by Glucose Grown Cultures of Trichoderma reesei Rut-C30 as a Response to Addition of Cellulose....Pages 115-124
Development and Application of an Integrated System for Monitoring Ethanol Content of Fuels....Pages 125-136
Model Based Soft-Sensor for On-Line Determination of Substrate....Pages 137-144
Screening of Dowex® Anion-Exchange Resins for Invertase Immobilization....Pages 145-159
Effects of Carbon Source on Expression of Alcohol Oxidase Activity and on Morphologic Pattern of YR-1 Strain, a Filamentous Fungus Isolated from Petroleum-Contaminated Soils....Pages 161-171
Effect of Temperature, Moisture, and Carbon Supplementation on Lipase Production by Solid-State Fermentation of Soy Cake by Penicillium simplicissimum ....Pages 173-180
The Effect of Temperature, Pressure, Exposure Time, and Depressurization Rate on Lipase Activity in SCCO 2 ....Pages 181-187
Ester Synthesis Catalyzed by Mucor miehei Lipase Immobilized on Magnetic Polysiloxane-Polyvinyl Alcohol Particles....Pages 189-199
Effect of pH on Cellulase Production of Trichoderma reesei RUT C30....Pages 201-211
Quantitative Analysis of Cellulose-Reducing Ends....Pages 213-231
Properties of a Recombinant β-Glucosidase from Polycentric Anaerobic Fungus Orpinomyces PC-2 and Its Application for Cellulose Hydrolysis....Pages 233-250
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Characterization and Performance of Immobilized Amylase and Cellulase....Pages 251-259
Immobilized Enzyme Studies in a Microscale Bioreactor....Pages 261-272
Performance of Chloroperoxidase Stabilization in Mesoporous Sol-Gel Glass Using In Situ Glucose Oxidase Peroxide Generation....Pages 273-285
Integration of Computer Modeling and Initial Studies of Site-Directed Mutagenesis to Improve Cellulase Activity on Cel9A from Thermobifida fusca ....Pages 287-297
Kinetics of Asparaginase II Fermentation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae ure2dal80 Mutant....Pages 299-305
Studies on Immobilized Lipase in Hydrophobic Sol-Gel....Pages 307-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Introduction to Microbial Catalysis and Engineering....Pages 323-324
Polykaryon Formation Using a Swollen Conidium of Trichoderma reesei ....Pages 325-334
Biosynthesis of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate- co -3-hydroxyalkanoates) by Metabolically Engineered Escherichia coli Strains....Pages 335-346
Effect of Corn Stover Concentration on Rheological Characteristics....Pages 347-360
Construction of Recombinant Escherichia coli Strains for Production of Poly-(3-hydroxybutyrate- co -3-hydroxyvalerate)....Pages 361-372
Biosynthesis of ( R )-3-Hydroxyalkanoic Acids by Metabolically Engineered Escherichia coli....Pages 373-379
Gibberellic Acid Production by Free and Immobilized Cells in Different Culture Systems....Pages 381-388
Screening Genus Penicillium for Producers of Cellulolytic and Xylanolytic Enzymes....Pages 389-401
Production of Ethanol from Cellulosic Biomass Hydrolysates Using Genetically Engineered Saccharomyces Yeast Capable of Cofermenting Glucose and Xylose....Pages 403-416
Secondary Membranes for Flux Optimization in Membrane Filtration of Biologic Suspensions....Pages 417-432
Enzymatic Synthesis of Monolaurin....Pages 433-445
Bioprocessing, Including Separations....Pages 449-451
Evaluation of Recombinant Green Fluorescent Protein, Under Various Culture Conditions and Purification with HiTrap Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography Resins....Pages 453-468
Thermal Stability of Recombinant Green Fluorescent Protein (GFPuv) at Various pH Values....Pages 469-483
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Evaluation of Optimization Techniques for an Extractive Alcoholic Fermentation Process....Pages 485-496
Yields from Glucose, Xylose, and Paper Sludge Hydrolysate During Hydrogen Production by the Extreme Thermophile Caldicellulosiruptor saccharolyticus ....Pages 497-508
Optimization of Steam Pretreatment of Corn Stover to Enhance Enzymatic Digestibility....Pages 509-523
Selection of Anion Exchangers for Detoxification of Dilute-Acid Hydrolysates from Spruce....Pages 525-538
Ethanol Production in Immobilized-Cell Bioreactors from Mixed Sugar Syrups and Enzymatic Hydrolysates of Steam-Exploded Biomass....Pages 539-557
Silymarin Extraction from Milk Thistle Using Hot Water....Pages 559-568
Extraction of Antioxidant Compounds from Energy Crops....Pages 569-583
Cellulase Retention and Sugar Removal by Membrane Ultrafiltration During Lignocellulosic Biomass Hydrolysis....Pages 585-599
Controlled Fed-Batch Fermentations of Dilute-Acid Hydrolysate in Pilot Development Unit Scale....Pages 601-617
Degeneration of β-Glucosidase Activity in a Foam Fractionation Process....Pages 619-625
Simultaneous Production of Nisin and Lactic Acid from Cheese Whey....Pages 627-638
Effect of Process Parameters on Production of a Biopolymer by Rhizobium sp....Pages 639-652
Succinic Acid Adsorption from Fermentation Broth and Regeneration....Pages 653-669
A Hollow-Fiber Membrane Extraction Process for Recovery and Separation of Lactic Acid from Aqueous Solution....Pages 671-688
Evaluation of Tocopherol Recovery Through Simulation of Molecular Distillation Process....Pages 689-711
High-Productivity Continuous Biofilm Reactor for Butanol Production....Pages 713-721
Measurement of Rheology of Distiller’s Grain Slurries Using a Helical Impeller Viscometer....Pages 723-732
Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation and Redesign of a Screw Conveyor Reactor....Pages 733-745
Production of Biodiesel Fuel by Transesterification of Rapeseed Oil....Pages 747-758
Front Matter....Pages 759-759
Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals— Past, Present, and Future....Pages 761-763
Front Matter....Pages 759-759
Origins of and Changes in the Symposium Series on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals....Pages 765-769
Optimization of Enzymatic Production of Biodiesel from Castor Oil in Organic Solvent Medium....Pages 771-780
Two-Step Preparation for Catalyst-Free Biodiesel Fuel Production....Pages 781-791
Biodiesel Fuel from Vegetable Oil by Various Supercritical Alcohols....Pages 793-801
Biobased Industrial Chemicals....Pages 805-806
Effects of Trace Contaminants on Catalytic Processing of Biomass-Derived Feedstocks....Pages 807-825
Characterization of Surfactin from Bacillus subtilis for Application as an Agent for Enhanced Oil Recovery....Pages 827-836
Effect of Germ and Fiber Removal on Production of Ethanol from Corn....Pages 837-842
Production of Fumaric Acid Using Rice Bran and Subsequent Conversion to Succinic Acid Through a Two-Step Process....Pages 843-855
Catalytic Hydrogenation of Glutamic Acid....Pages 857-869
Opportunities in the Industrial Biobased Products Industry....Pages 871-885
Continuous Production of Butanol by Clostridium acetobutylicum Immobilized in a Fibrous Bed Bioreactor....Pages 887-898
Lipopeptide Surfactant Production by Bacillus subtilis Grown on Low-Cost Raw Materials....Pages 899-912
Higher-Alcohols Biorefinery....Pages 913-932
Biomass Pretreatment and Hydrolysis....Pages 935-936
Fermentation of “Quick Fiber” Produced from a Modified Corn-Milling Process into Ethanol and Recovery of Corn Fiber Oil....Pages 937-949
Ammonia Fiber Explosion Treatment of Corn Stover....Pages 951-963
Initial Evaluation of Simple Mass Transfer Models to Describe Hemicellulose Hydrolysis in Corn Stover....Pages 965-976
Impact of Fluid Velocity on Hot Water Only Pretreatment of Corn Stover in a Flowthrough Reactor....Pages 977-987
Combined Steam Pretreatment and Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Starch-Free Wheat Fibers....Pages 989-1002
Front Matter....Pages 759-759
Application of Xylanase from Thermomyces lanuginosus IOC-4145 for Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Corncob and Sugarcane Bagasse....Pages 1003-1012
Predicted Effects of Mineral Neutralization and Bisulfate Formation on Hydrogen Ion Concentration for Dilute Sulfuric Acid Pretreatment....Pages 1013-1022
Enhancement of Enzymatic Digestibility of Recycled Newspaper by Addition of Surfactant in Ammonia-Hydrogen Peroxide Pretreatment....Pages 1023-1031
Study on Methane Fermentation and Production of Vitamin B 12 from Alcohol Waste Slurry....Pages 1033-1039
Comparison of Two Posthydrolysis Processes of Brewery’s Spent Grain Autohydrolysis Liquor to Produce a Pentose-Containing Culture Medium....Pages 1041-1058
Optimization of Brewery’s Spent Grain Dilute-Acid Hydrolysis for the Production of Pentose-Rich Culture Media....Pages 1059-1072
Comparison of Microbial Inhibition and Enzymatic Hydrolysis Rates of Liquid and Solid Fractions Produced from Pretreatment of Biomass with Carbonic Acid and Liquid Hot Water....Pages 1073-1086
Modeling of Carbonic Acid Pretreatment Process Using ASPEN-Plus®....Pages 1087-1102
Enhanced Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Steam-Exploded Douglas Fir Wood by Alkali-Oxygen Post-treatment....Pages 1103-1114
Effects of Sugar Inhibition on Cellulases and β-Glucosidase During Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Softwood Substrates....Pages 1115-1126
Kinetics of Glucose Decomposition During Dilute-Acid Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass....Pages 1127-1138
Conversion of Distiller’s Grain into Fuel Alcohol and a Higher-Value Animal Feed by Dilute-Acid Pretreatment....Pages 1139-1159
Plant Biotechnology and Feedstock Genomics....Pages 1163-1165
Expression of UDP—Glucose Dehydrogenase Reduces Cell-Wall Polysaccharide Concentration and Increases Xylose Content in Alfalfa Stems....Pages 1167-1182
Effects of Ammonia Fiber Explosion Treatment on Activity of Endoglucanase from Acidothermus cellulolyticus in Transgenic Plant....Pages 1183-1191
Effects of Inoculum Conditions on Growth of Hairy Roots of Panax ginseng C.A. Meyer....Pages 1193-1203
Microbial Pentose Metabolism....Pages 1207-1209
International Energy Agency—Bioenergy....Pages 1213-1214
Back Matter....Pages 1215-1223