| Thursday, 3/29/2007 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM McCormick Place South S103D, Level 1, Oral | AGRO |
Agricultural Biomass, Biobased Products, and Biofuels | |
| Organized by: Justin R. Barone, Cathleen J. Hapeman, Joseph H. Massey, James N. Seiber Presiding: Joseph H. Massey | |
8:30 AM | Introductory Remarks | ||||||
8:35 AM | Properties of biodegradable feather keratin polymers Justin R. Barone | ||||||
9:00 AM | Biopolymers from polylactic acid and milk proteins Charles Onwulata Peggy Tomasula | ||||||
9:25 AM | Extraction and electrospinning of zein extracted from corn gluten meal using acetic acid G. W. Selling Kristen K. Woods | ||||||
9:50 AM | Improved physical properties of zein using glyoxal as a crosslinker Kristen K. Woods Gordon W. Selling | ||||||
10:15 AM | Intermission | ||||||
10:30 AM | Arthropod repelling constituents from a southern folk remedy: Investigations of the American beautyberry, Callicarpa americana Charles L. Cantrell Charles T. Bryson, Stephen O. Duke, Jerome A. Klun, John F. Carroll | ||||||
10:55 AM | Biobased Herbicides Franck E. Dayan Stephen O. Duke | ||||||
11:20 AM | Single-use, disposable food containers: Starch-based alternatives to petroleum-based plastics Gregory M. Glenn Charles N. Ludvik, Artur P. Klamczynski, William J. Orts, Syed H. Imam, Delilah Wood | ||||||
11:45 AM | Incorporation of bacteriocin in edible pectin films for antimicrobial packaging Kevin B. Hicks LinShu Liu, Tony Jin, Cheng-Kung Liu, Amar K. Mohanty, Rahul Bhardwaj, Manjusri Misra | ||||||
12:10 PM | Lunch Break |
1:05 PM | Introductory Remarks | ||||||
1:10 PM | Fast pyrolysis and biooil production from energy crops being developed within USDA-ARS A. A. Boateng | ||||||
1:35 PM | Steam explosion method for producing microcrystalline cellulose from agricultural residues Foster A. Agblevor Maha M. Ibrahim, Waleed K. El-Zawawy | ||||||
2:00 PM | Developing enzyme systems for biomass destruction Dominic Wong Charles Lee, Kurt Wagschal, Michael Smith, George Robertson, William Orts | ||||||
2:25 PM | Process for obtaining cellulose acetate from agricultural by-products Atanu Biswas Badal C. Saha, John W. Lawton Jr., Randal L. Shogren, Julious L. Willett | ||||||
2:50 PM | Intermission | ||||||
3:05 PM | Fuel from herbaceous feedstocks: A switchgrass-centric perspective Gautam Sarath Bruce S. Dien, Kenneth P. Vogel, Hans-Joachim G. Jung | ||||||
3:30 PM | Hydrothermal conversion of wood: Reaction kinetics and process development Bo Zhang Marc von Keitz, Kenneth Valentas | ||||||
3:55 PM | Fractionating lignocellulose by using cellulose solvent and organic solvent Y.-H. Percival Zhang Geoff Moxley | ||||||
4:20 PM | Concluding Remarks |