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.

SESSION 3: BIOMASS PRETREATMENT AND FRACTIONATION The Effect of Varying Organosolv Pretreatment Chemicals on the Physicochemical Properties and Cellulolytic Hydrolysis of Mountain Pine Beetle-Killed Lodgepole Pine L.F. Del Rio I R.P. Chandra I J.N. Saddler Optimizing Dilute-Acid Pretreatment of Rapeseed Straw for Extraction of Hemicellulose T.-S. Jeong I B.-H. Um I J.-S. Kim I K.-K. Oh Compositional Changes in Sugarcane Bagasse on Low Temperature, Long-term Diluted Ammonia Treatment M. Kim I G. Aita I D.F. Day Production of Sugars and Levulinic Acid from Marine Biomass Gelidium amansii G.-T. Jeong I D.-H. Park Bioconversion of Kraft Paper Mill Sludges to Ethanol by SSF and SSCF L. Kang I W. Wang I Y.Y. Lee Dilute Ammonia Pretreatment of Sorghum and Its Effectiveness on Enzyme Hydrolysis and Ethanol Fermentation D.A. Salvi I G.M. Aita I D. Robert I V. Bazan SESSION 6: MICROBIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY Development of Real-Time PCR Primer and Probe Sets for Detecting Degenerated and Non-degenerated Forms of the Butanol-Producing Bacterium Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 S.-M. Lee I M.O. Cho I Y. Um I B.-I. Sang Ethanol Production from Sugarcane Bagasse Hydrolysate Using Pichia stipitis L. Canilha I W. Carvalho I M.d. de Almeida Felipe I J.B. de Almeida e Silva I, M. Giulietti Ethanol Production from Sugarcane Bagasse by Zymomonas mobilis Using Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation (SSF) Process D. da Silveira dos Santos I A.C. Camelo I K.C.P. Rodrigues I L.C. Carlos I N. Pereira Jr. Identification of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Genes Involved in the Resistance to Phenolic Fermentation Inhibitors L. Sundström I S. Larsson I L.J. Jönsson Phenotype MicroArray Profiling of Zymomonas mobilis ZM4 B. Bochner I V. Gomez I M. Ziman I S. Yang I S.D. Brown Performances of Lactobacillus brevis for Producing Lactic Acid from Hydrolysate of Lignocellulosics W. Guo I W. Jia I Y. Li I S. Chen Optimization of Lactic Acid Production by Pellet-Form Rhizopus oryzae in 3-L Airlift Bioreactor Using Response Surface Methodology T. Maneeboon I W. Vanichsriratana I C. Pomchaitaward I V. Kitpreechavanich Toward Plant Cell Wall Degradation Under Thermophilic Condition: A Unique Microbial Community Developed Originally from Swine Waste Y. Liang I J. Yesuf I Z. Feng SESSION 9: BIOPROCESSING AND SEPARATIONS TECHNOLOGY Production of Acetone-Butanol-Ethanol (ABE) in Direct Fermentation of Cassava by Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4 V.H. Thang I K. Kanda I G. Kobayashi Characterization of Commercial Amylases for the Removal of Filter Cake on Petroleum Wells N. Kyaw I R.F. de Mesquita I E. Kameda I J.C. de Queiroz Neto I M.A.P. Langone I, M.A.Z. Coelho Optimization of Biodiesel Production Catalyzed by Fungus Cells Immobilized in Fibrous Supports J.-P. Chen I G.-H. Lin Synthesis of Rapeseed Biodiesel Using Short-Chained Alkyl Acetates as Acyl Acceptor G.-T. Jeong I D.-H. Park Ethanol Production by Fermentation Using Immobilized Cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in Cashew Apple Bagasse A.M. Pacheco I D.R. Gondim I L.R.B. Goncalves Light Regime Characterization in an Airlift Photobioreactor for Production of Microalgae with High Starch Content B.D. Fernandes I G.M. Dragone I J.A. Teixeira I A.A. Vicente Production of Lactic Acid from Sucrose: Strain Selection, Fermentation, and KineticModeling B.H. Lunelli I R.R. Andrade I D.I.P. Atala I M.R. Wolf Maciel I F. Maugeri Filho I R. Maciel Filho Production of Biodiesel via Enzymatic Ethanolysis of the Sunflower and SoybeanOils: Modeling F.L.P. Pessoa I S.P. Magalhães I P.W. de Carvalho Falcão Biodiesel Production from Integration Between Reaction and Separation System: Reactive Distillation Process N. de Lima da Silva I C.M.G. Santander I ...