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Fungal Upgrading of Wheat Straw for Straw-Thermoplastics Production

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Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals Held May 4–7, 2003, in Breckenridge, CO

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Combining biologic pretreatment with storage is an innovative approach for improving feedstock characteristics and cost, but the magnitude of responses of such systems to upsets is unknown. Unsterile wheat straw stems were upgraded for 12 wk with Pleurotus ostreatus at constant temperature to estimate the variation in final compositions with variations in initial moisture and inoculum. Degradation rates and conversions increased with both moisture and inoculum. A regression analysis indicated that system performance was quite stable with respect to inoculum and moisture content after 6 wk of treatment. Scale-up by 150x indicated that system stability and final straw composition are sensitive to inoculum source, history, and inoculation method. Comparative testing of straw-thermoplastic composites produced from upgraded stems is under way.

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  1. Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID, 83415-2203, USA

    Tracy P. Houghton, J. Richard Hess & Jeffrey A. Lacey

  2. Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-1806, USA

    Michael P. Wolcott, Anke Schirp, Karl Englund, David Dostal & Frank Loge

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Houghton, T.P. et al. (2004). Fungal Upgrading of Wheat Straw for Straw-Thermoplastics Production. In: Finkelstein, M., McMillan, J.D., Davison, B.H., Evans, B. (eds) Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals Held May 4–7, 2003, in Breckenridge, CO. Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-837-3_7

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