Within the activities of scientific and cultural activity for the first semester in the Department of Chemical Engineering for the academic year 2019-2020 Assistant Lecturer Mariam Tariq provided a lecture entitled:

DEEP EUTECTIC SOLVENT PRETREATMENT FOR ENHANCING BIOCHEMICAL CONVERSION OF SWITCHGRASS

In the presence of the head of the Department of Chemical Engineering Khaled AjamiSukkar, and heads of branches, academic staff, employees and students of masters and doctorate on Thursday, 10/9/2019

In this study, the swichgrass plant was treated using several otactic solvents to improve the biochemical transformation of this plant to produce acetone by fermentation by Bacillus licheniformis.

In this study, green solvent-based pretreatment was developed for improving the conversion of switchgrass to acetoin. Deep eutectic solvents (DESs), comprising choline chloride (ChCl) as a hydrogen-bond acceptor (HBA) and various chemical as a hydrogen-bond donor (HBD), were used to pretreat switchgrass.