Conference Presentations - 2011 AIChE Annual Meeting

The manufacture of pharmaceutical drug products has benefited significantly from a QbD approach, including the enabling of continuous production over batch processing. Developing and improving processes for continuous manufacture requires the combined use of process data with process and...

Geothermal energy can be used for generating electricity and providing direct heat for applications such as space heating and cooling, water heating, aquaculture and industrial processes. Geothermal heat pump (GHP) is a central heating/cooling system that pumps heat to or from the ground to provide...

The utilization of switchgrass as a dedicated energy crop is well documented in the scientific community. However, there has not been any large-scale production of switchgrass as a feedstock for the production of biofuels. In this work, three different varieties of switchgrass were grown on 600...

Micrometer-sized cylinders at fluid interfaces self-assemble owing to capillary interactions, forming linear chains of particles joined end-to-end by ‘capillary bonds’. We measure the strength of these capillary bonds by a new experimental technique. We incorporate a magnetic cylinder within a self...

The aim of the present study was to demonstrate the preparation and characterization of planar biomimetic bacterial water-channel protein Aquaporin Z (AQPZ)-incorporated polymer membranes on porous solid substrates by vesicle spreading for water treatment. AQPZ -incorporated polymer vesicles were...

The Rule of thumb for reactor design and process conditions for supercritical water gasification of wet biomass is introduced. The important aspects includes heat transfer and heating rate, reaction rate, plugging, gas composition, inorganic element behavior, and heat of reaction. The know-hows...