Handbook of Biorefinery Research and Technology

Feedstock: General.- Agriculture residues.- Designing the perfect plant feedstock for biofuel production.- Microalgae: True sustainable feedstock.- Life Cycle Assessment of biomass production.- Pretreatment.- Nonbiological pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass.- Biological pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass.- Use of ionic liquids in converting lignocellulosic material to biofuels.- Pretreatment of macroalgae.- Saccharification.- Saccharification of lignocellulosic biomass for biofuel and biorefinery applications.- Solid acid mediated hydrolysis of biomass for producing biofuels.- Microalgae.- Cultivation of Microalgae.- Microalgae Harvest.- Recent Advances in Biofuel Production.- Recent Developments in fermentative Bio-Hydrogen Production.- Progress in photosynthetic bio-hydrogen production.- Progress in Bio-oil Production.- Technical Advances in ethanol biofuel production.- Progress in the development of butanol production.- Progress in alkane biofuel.- Technologies on bio-gas production.- Progress in ethanol production from carbon monoxide.- Progress in the production of platform chemicals in biorefinery.- Recent development in bioproduction and application of 3-HP.- Progress in Polylactate production.- Progress in butanediol.- Past, Present and future of succinate.- Glutamate as a platform chemical of bio-based economy.- Production of long-chain organic for bioindustry.- Essential Technologies for Biorefinery.- Metabolic Engineering for Strain Improvement.- Genome-scale metabolic engineering.- Synthetic regulatory device for design of microbes.- Molecular device for genome redesign for synthetic biology.- Genome-scale genetic engineering for synthetic biology.- Progress in Integrated Bioprocess.

Prof. GREGORY N. STEPHANOPOULOS Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1978 M.S., University of Florida, 1975 B.S., National Technical University, Athens, 1973 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2006- MIT, W.H. Dow Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology 2006-2007 ETH, Visiting Professor, Institute of Chemical and Bioengineering, Zurich 2000-05 MIT, Bayer Professor of Chem. Eng. and Biotechnology 2000- MIT-Harvard Division of Health Science and Technology (HST), Professor 1990 - 1997 MIT, Associate Director, Biotechnology Center 1997 - present Harvard University, MGH, Lecturer on Surgery and Bioengineering 1985 - 2000 MIT, Professor of Chemical Engineering 1983 - 1985 California Institute of Technology Associate Professor (tenured), Department of Chemical Engineering 1978 - 1983 California Institute of Technology Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering 1975 - 1978 University of Minnesota Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering March-July, 1975 Union Carbide Corporation Linde Division, Tonawanda, New York Research and Development Engineer 1973-1975 University of Florida Research and Teaching Assistant, Department of Chemical Engineering 1972 Erbsloh Aluminum, Wuppertal, W. Germany, Summer Research Fellow Prof. Park, Jong Moon 1986 Ph.D.,Univ. of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, Manchester 1986-1988 Post-Doc., University of Minessota 1988-1989 Section Head, Vipont Research Lab., Inc.

1996- Secretary of Research Affairs School of Environmental Engineering, POSTECH 1998-1999 McGill University, Visiting Professor Research Interest 1) Wastewater treatment 2) Bioremediation 3) Air pollution 4) Others: microbiological influenced corrosion(MIC) survey and biofiltration process to remove VOCs or toxic gases (e.g. hydrogen sulfide) are going on. Plant cell and tissue culture is another main stream of research activity of our group, through which high value complicated chemicals(mainly phytochemicals such as