Conference Presentations - 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting

Optimization and Characterization of the Different Fractions of Biocrude Oil (BCO) From Waste Biomass

Oct 20, 2011

Laura-Ann S.L. Chin

The increasing demand for heightened energy security, the sky rocketing prices of oil and the concerns over escalating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions due to fossil fuels are the main reasons why biofuels could potentially be one of the viable energy carriers of the future. Biofuels are derived from...

Dynamic Design Space As An Integrated Component of Quality by Design

Oct 19, 2011

Carl A. Anderson

The Food and Drug Administration requires from pharmaceutical companies the development of extensive knowledge databases regarding the control of the manufacturing process of a drug product. Through development and validation, drug manufacturers discover their process boundaries and identify a...

Biodiesel Production by Transesterification Using Heterogeneous Base Catalyst and Effect of Co-Solvent

Oct 19, 2011

Arun K. Gupta

Biodiesel production by Transestrification using heterogeneous base catalyst and effect of co-solvent Arun Kumar Gupta a , Goutam Deo b Department of Chemical Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur-208016, India E-mail: a guptaak@iitk.ac.in , b goutam@iitk.ac.in...

Modeling of Asphaltene Deposition In a Vertical Tubing

Oct 19, 2011

Dmitry Eskin

Asphaltene deposition phenomena are investigated both theoretically and experimentally. A Couette device, where the inner cylinder rotates and particles deposit on the outer wall, is used for laboratory studies of the deposition process. The modeling approach, recently proposed by the authors (...

QbD In Dry Powder Inhaler Development

Oct 19, 2011

David Morton

Summary Developing products comprising un-bound fine cohesive powders throws up significant challenges. Dry powder inhalers present a prime example. Why? Because the behaviour of fine cohesive particle behaviour is notoriously complex, and notably more so than any single phase solid, liquid or...

Towards Developing Anaerobic Digestion Based Biorefinery – Research On Food Wastes As Feedstock

Oct 19, 2011

Shulin Chen

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a proven technology for waste treatment. However, as the organic material becomes more valuable and being treated as resources, traditional AD process is no longer adequate. The Bioprocessing and Bioproduct Engineering Laboratory at Washington State University has been...

Aging of Biomass Fast Pyrolysis-Oil and Process Strategies to Produce Stable Pyrolysis Oils

Oct 19, 2011

Charles A. Mullen

Fast pyrolysis bio-oils are unstable due to a variety of factors, the most important being the high concentration of reactive oxygen-functionalized organic molecules, especially carbonyl containing compounds. Condensation and oligomerization reactions of these molecules lead to an increase in the...

Lifetime and Efficiency Studies of Zinc/Bromine Electrochemical Energy Storage In Large Scale Renewable Energy Applications

Oct 19, 2011

Alex Bistrika

As the world's power needs grow, the demand for power from renewable resources, such as wind or solar, is increasing. One major drawback associated with these renewable resources is that the power output is dependent on environmental factors, such as cloud cover and wind speeds. This allows the...

A Data-Driven Modeling Approach Using the Design of Dynamic Experiments Methodology In Calculating the Design Space of Batch Pharmaceutical Processes

Oct 19, 2011

Christos Georgakis

The development of fundamental models for fed-batch pharmaceutical processes range from very challenging to almost impossible as not all the inner workings of the process are quantitatively known. Thus, the accurate calculation of the Design Space in which the process will be operated is a...

Effects of Annealing On Zr8Ni19X2 (X = Ni, Mg, Al, Sc, V, Mn, Co, Sn, La, Hf) for Ni/MH Battery Operation

Oct 19, 2011

Jean Nei

Zr, Ti-based AB 2 metal hydride (MH) alloys are considered to be one of the most promising candidates to replace the misch metal based AB 5 alloys presently used as the negative electrode in nickel/metal hydride (Ni/MH) batteries . Since most of the studies on AB 2 MH alloys focus on multi-element...

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