Introduction of the Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals.

摘要

Bioprocessing systems continue to have an important place in the fermentation industry and for environmental control technology, but new opportunities continue to appear. For example, the production of polymers or polymer precursers as well as other types of products useful in the materials industry can be produced by bioprocessing concepts. This symposium, the tenth in a series, covered the above topic as well as research and development in a variety of other areas important to the efficient and environmentally acceptable production and use of fuels and chemicals. This meeting is held as a forum for the discussion of innovative processing concepts with particular emphasis on applied research and process research in early phases of development. General sessions on thermal/chemical conversion of biomass and bioconversion concepts were held and special sessions were held on biological processing of fossil fuels and on biological production of materials. Several discussion groups were also organized. 9 refs. (ERA citation 13:053401)