Bioenergy

Preparation of Mesoporous Silica-supported Palladium Catalyst for Biofuel Upgrade Ling Fei, Joshua Hill, Qianglu Lin, Yun Xu, Shuguang Deng, Hongmei Luo Department of Chemical Engineering, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 88003 A large number of reactions in organic chemistry (such as...

An efficient and sustainable energy crop production system is essential for the success of the emerging biorefinery industry. However, there is currently a significant lack of understanding regarding the development and dynamics of the biomass feedstock market upstream of the biorefinery, which is...

Effects of total inorganic carbon and nitrogen concentrations on lipid formation in Chlorella vulgaris Jinsoo Kim 1 , Joo-Youp Lee 1 , Kaniz F. Siddiqui 2 1 Chemical Engineering Program, University of Cincinnati, OH 45221-0012 2 The Metropolitan Sewer District of Greater Cincinnati, Cincinnati,...

Several degradation products are formed or released during AFEX pretreatment process, which can be divided into five groups: 1) carbohydrates, 2) aliphatic acids, 3) nitrogenous compounds, 4) furans, 5) aromatic compounds. Some of these degradation products are expected to be inhibitory to...

Processing of biodiesel from algae biomass has attracted much interest in recent times due to many reasons. Significant amongst them are global warming and scarcity in fossil fuels. It has been suggested that this third generation biofuel, a carbon neutral alternative, is capable of meeting the...

The production of stable biomass pyrolysis depends strongly on both reactor design and the effective design of a condensation train to collect the pyrolysis products. There are several challenges in the design of the pyrolysis system including solids feeding, char separation from the pyrolysis...

Hybrid poplar biomass feedstocks were impregnated with catalysts and gasified at three different temperatures in a bubbling fluidized bed reactor. The impregnated biomass were gasified in a nitrogen atmosphere at 400 o C, 600 o C, and 800 o C. The gas yield increased with increasing temperature as...

Cellulose found in almost all plant cell wall, making it one of the most abundant renewable and sustainable natural resource on the Earth’s surface. Cellulosic ethanol is receiving increasing attention as a viable alternative to the commonly used fossil fuel, petrol. Cellulosic ethanol is a second-...

In this presentation I review important findings recorded in the archival literature concerning the thermodynamics, kinetics, mechanisms, and catalysis of biomass pyrolysis and gasification that serve as rules of thumb for reactor design.

Wood-feeding termites are highly effective in deconstruction of wood cell wall structure for efficient utilization of cellulose and hemicelluloses. One of the key factors for its effectual cell wall disintegration is the lignin structure modification for de-protection. In this study, we provide...