Biofuels and Bioproducts CHM 430
Lecture Notes
Assignments
Laboratory Exercises
Laboratory 1: Chemical Reactor Safety
Laboratory 2: BioReactor Orientation Lab
Laboratory 3: Soxlet Extraction and Soda Pulping Labs
Laboratory 4: Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Cellulose Lab
Laboratory 5: Glucose Derivitization and GC-MS Quantification Lab
Laboratory 6: Lignin Chromatography Lab
Laboratory 7: Preparation of a Biodiesel Catalyst from Glycerol By-Product
Laboratory 8: Make Your Own Biodiesel Fuel
Laboratory 9: Advanced Biofuel Lab: Isopentenol Production from Engineered E. coli Strain JBEI 1A
Laboratory 10: Reductive Amination of Vanillin, a High-Value product of Lignin Oxidation
Laboratory 11: Synthesis of a Renewable, "Platform" Ionic Liquid
Additional Course Literature
Practice Problems and Review Material