532109 Are Lignocellulosic Feedstocks Commercially Relevant to Make Pure Sugars for Chemical Catalytic Upgrading?

Sampath Gunukula1, Hemant P. Pendse2, Thomas J. Schwartz3, Adriaan van Heiningen4, William J. DeSisto5 and M. Clayton Wheeler1, (1)Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering and Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME, (2)University of Maine, NE, (3)Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, University of Maine, Orono, ME, (4)University of Maine and Aalto University, Orono, ME, (5)Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Forest Bioproducts Research Institute, University of Maine, Orono, ME