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Biochemical engineer Bruce Dien and microbiologist Loren Iten use mini-batch reactors to pretreat biomass at high temperatures to prepare it for fermentation to ethanol. Here, they are pretreating corn fiber, but the process is the same for switchgrass.
Photo by Peggy Greb.
