Conference Presentations - 2012 AIChE Annual Meeting

Abundant supply and existing infrastructure makes diesel a favorable candidate for portable energy supply. Diesel generators are widely used in locations where there is no reliable electric grid, but they are noisy, have emission issues, and often have poor fuel efficiency in practical operations...

Adsorption Based Hydrogen Storage System; Multiscale Approach and Mathematical Model Agnieszka Truszkowska 1 , Christopher Loeb 1 and Goran Jovanovic 1 1 Oregon State University, Department of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering, Corvallis, OR 97330, USA Emails: truszkoa@onid.orst...

Torrefied woody biomass in pelletized or briquette form has been demonstrated to be a functional replacement for coal in powdered coal fired systems. This solid fuel has virtually no sulfur, mercury or other harmful metal contaminants, produces lower NOX emissions, and has the same or higher energy...

Complex hydrides including alanates ([AlH 4 ] – ) have recently gained attention as alternative hydrogen storage materials. Many of these materials have been known to release hydrogen upon contact with water; however, the hydrolysis reactions are highly irreversible, a process known as “one-pass”...

The early development of fuel processing technologies for fuel cell systems was, to a great extent, driven by fuel cell automobile programs. At the time an on-board reformer was believed to be the best option for fuel cell automobile commercialisation. Regrettably, the belief that we simply needed...

Transportation and handling of lignocellulosic biomass are often challenging and expensive due to low bulk density, in the range of 60-80 kg/m 3 for agricultural straws and grasses and 200-600 kg/m 3 for woody biomass. Pelletization results in reduced transportation costs and provides for better...