1. Introduction to the proceedings of the twenty-seventh symposium on biotechnology for fuels and chemicals

   • James D. McMillan

   Report Pages: iii - viii

2. Introduction to session 6

   • Michael R. Ladisch

   Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 909 - 910

3. Enzymatic conversion of waste cooking oils into alternative fuel—Biodiesel

   • Guanyi Chen
   • Ming Ying
   • Weizhung Li

   Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 911 - 921

4. Inulin-containing biomass for ethanol production

   • Ma José Negro
   • Ignacio Ballesteros
   • Mercedes Ballesteros

   Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 922 - 932

5. Production of medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates by pseudomonas aeruginosa with fatty acids and alternative carbon sources

   • Pui-Ling Chan
   • Vincent Yu
   • Hoi-Fu Yu

   Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 933 - 941

6. Production and rheological characterization of biopolymer of Sphingomonas capsulata ATCC 14666 using conventional and industrial media

   • Ana Luiza Da Silva Berwanger
   • Natalia Molossi Domingues
   • Adilma Regina Pippa Scamparini

   Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 942 - 950

7. Inulinase production by Kluyveromyces marxianus NRRL Y-7571 using solid state fermentation

   • João Paulo Bender
   • Marcio Antônio Mazutti
   • Helen Treichel

   Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 951 - 958

8. Macroscopic mass and energy balance of a pilot plant anaerobic bioreactor operated under thermophilic conditions

   • Teodoro Espinosa-Solares
   • John Bombardiere
   • Nehemias Castellanos-Hernandez

   Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 959 - 968

9. Ethyl alcohol production optimization by coupling genetic algorithm and multilayer perceptron neural network

   • Elmer Ccopa Rivera
   • Aline C. da Costa
   • Rubens Maciel Filho

   Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 969 - 984

10. Lactic acid recovery from cheese whey fermentation broth using combined ultrafiltration and nanofiltration membranes

    • Yebo Li
    • Abolghasem Shahbazi

    Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 985 - 996

11. Fermentation of rice straw/chicken manure to carboxylic acids using a mixed culture of marine mesophilic micoorganisms

    • Frank K. Agbogbo
    • Mark T. Holtzapple

    Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 997 - 1014

12. Construction of recombinant Bacillus subtilis for production of polyhydroxyalkanoates

    • Yujie Wang
    • Lifang Ruan
    • Hoi-Fu Yu

    Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 1015 - 1022

13. Microorganism screening for limonene bioconversion and correlation with RAPD markers

    • Geciane Toniazzo
    • Lindomar Lerin
    • Octávio A. C. Antunes

    Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 1023 - 1033

14. Use of different adsorbents for sorption and Bacillus polymyxa protease immobilization

    • Irem Kirkkopru
    • Cenk Alpaslan
    • Yüksel Güvenilir

    Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 1034 - 1040

15. Simulation and optimization of a supercritical extraction process for recovering provitamin A

    • Elenise Bannwart de Moraes
    • Mario Eusebio Torres Alvarez
    • Rubens Maciel Filho

    Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 1041 - 1050

16. Affinity foam fractionation of Trichoderma cellulase

    • Qin Zhang
    • Chi-Ming Lo
    • Lu-Kwang Ju

    Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 1051 - 1065

17. Molecular distillation

    • Elenise Bannwart de Moraes
    • Patricia Fazzio Martins
    • Maria Regina Wolf Maciel

    Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 1066 - 1076

18. Application of two-stage biofilter system for the removal of odorous compounds

    • Gwi-Taek Jeong
    • Donn-Hee Park
    • Jin-Myeong Cha

    Session 6 Bioprocess Research and Development Pages: 1077 - 1088