Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals

Proceedings of the Nineteenth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals Held May 4-8. 1997, at Colorado Springs, Colorado

Mark Finkelstein, Brian H. Davison (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

1015 Seiten

2012 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Humana Press Inc. (Verlag)
978-1-4612-7295-3 (ISBN)

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MARK FINKELSTEIN National Renewable Energy Laboratory BRIAN H. DAVISON Oak Ridge National Laboratory The proceedings of the 19th symposium on Biotechnologyfor Fuels and Chemicals, held in Colorado Springs, Colorado, May 4-8, 1997, had over 200 attendees. This meeting continues to provide a unique forum for the presentation of new applications and recent research advances in the production of fuels and chemicals through biotech nology. The utilization of renewable resources, and in particular cellulosic biomass, has broad implications in today's world of green house gases, global warming, ozone layers, climate change, energy sustainability, and carbon emissions. It also has relevance to the chemical industry's continuing need to both lower current chemi cal production costs and produce novel chemicals. Biotechnology and bioprocessing are now making it possible to convert this bio mass to fuels and chemicals in a commercially attractive fashion. The 19th Symposium captures a wide range of technical topics from an academic, industrial, or government perspective. A vari ety of biomass feedstocks are discussed in Session 1, along with several updated and innovative pretreatment processing approaches. The ability to turn lignocellulosic materials into simple sugars offers great opportunities to generate cost-effective feed stocks to be used in biotechnological processes for the production of fuels and chemicals. Through the advent of genetic engineering, the development of a series of exciting new biocatalysts and microbes were presented in Session 2.

Session 1—Feedstock Supply and Processing.- Session 2—Applied Biological Research.- Session 3—Bioprocessing Research.- Session 4—Industrial Needs, Commercialization, and Process Economics.- Session 5—Specialty Chemicals With Emphasis on Environmentally Benign Products and Processes.- Session 6—Biotechnology in the Pulp and Paper Industry.- Author Index.

Reihe/Serie	ABAB Symposium
Zusatzinfo	XVI, 1015 p.
Verlagsort	Totowa, NJ
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Genetik / Molekularbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Mikrobiologie / Immunologie
	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	1-4612-7295-5 / 1461272955
ISBN-13	978-1-4612-7295-3 / 9781461272953
Zustand	Neuware