Developing a Biological Process to Treat Feedstock for Cellulosic Ethanol Biorefining
The purpose of the project is to develop a technique to enhance production and delivery of cellulase enzymes through pelletization. The hypotheses are that the production of ligninolytic enzymes could be significantly enhanced by pelletized P. chrysosporium, and a pretreatment process using mixture of ligninases and cellulases can be further developed for industrial applications in a way close to the natural decomposition process of lignocellulosic materials. Specific objectives include: (1) Enhancing ligninase production on lignocellulosic materials using a pelletized fungal fermentation; (2) Developing an enzyme mixture with enhanced performance for integrated biological pretreatment and hydrolysis of the feedstock.
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Supplemental Notes:
- Program Information: Advanced Research, Biobased Research
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $99971.00
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Sponsor Organizations:
Research and Innovative Technology Administration
Department of Transportation
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Project Managers:
Johnson, Shawn
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Performing Organizations:
Michigan State University, East Lansing
East Lansing, MI United States 48824 -
Principal Investigators:
Liao, Wei
- Start Date: 20080701
- Expected Completion Date: 0
- Actual Completion Date: 20100630
- Source Data: RiP Project 25216
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Alternate fuels; Biological materials; Biomass fuels; Decomposition; Energy conservation; Ethanol; Research projects
- Uncontrolled Terms: Biorefining; Enzymes; Feedstocks; Lignocellulose
- Subject Areas: Energy; Highways; Transportation (General);
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01572264
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Northeast Sun Grant Institute
- Files: RIP
- Created Date: Aug 4 2015 1:02AM