Penn State Bioenergy Short Course Series 2009: "Cellulosic Ethanol Production"
[23-24 Mar 2009]

>> The course is designed to provide an in-depth technical overview for the rapidly increasing number of professionals that need greater familiarity with the biomass area, or that want to expand knowledge beyond their specialty.

>> The focus will be on the use of lignocellulosic biomass to produce ethanol and other fuels in next generation biorefineries.

>> Topics will include: 

• Biorefinery Systems & Biomass Feedstocks
• Pretreatment Strategies & Saccharification
• Biofuel Fermentation Strategies & Biotechnology
• Thermochemical Conversions
• Synthetic Biology for Synthetic Fuels & Process Technologies Scale-Up
• Commercialization & Evaluation
• Environment & Policy

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