Chemical Engineering Practice

The Cultivation of Algae and its Conversion to Biodiesel Daniel Choi, Spencer Glantz, Jasmin Alsous, Warren D. Seider, Stuart W. Churchill Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania A presentation at the 2010 Annual Meeting under the title &'The Production...

Autothermal reforming (ATR) of liquid hydrocarbon fuels over nickel-based catalysts produces an equilibrium-limited mixture of hydrogen-rich syngas that is suitable as feed for solid oxide fuel cells. Autothermal reforming involves exothermic partial oxidation as well as endothermic steam reforming...

Oil sands operations in Alberta are poised to experience significant growth over the next number of years. Production of 1.31 million bbl/day of synthetic crude oil and bitumen blends from oil sands in 2008 is projected to increase to over 3 million bbl/day by 2018. This guarantees a large output...

Gas condensate reservoirs experience great losses in productivity as the reservoir pressure drops below the dew point pressure due to formation and accumulation of liquid condensate around the well bore and subsequent reduction of gas relative permeability. Several methods have been proposed to...

Background Oxy-combustion is considered as one of the CO 2 capture options for the coal-fired power plants. The CO 2 -rich flue gas from such a plant will have to be compressed and purified for sequestrtion. Praxair is developing a near zero emissions technology that will produce CO 2 virtually...

A milestone in process safety was the 1974 Flixborough explosion in the United Kingdom the caused twenty-eight deaths. Following, the accident interest in chemical process industry safety increasd, as well as from government regulatory organizations and the general public. Since 1978, interest in...

Chemical Looping Combustion is presently considered as one of the most promising CO 2 capture technology in terms of efficiency penalty and cost reduction. TOTAL and IFP Energies nouvelles are collaborating for the development of chemical looping combustion applications. In order to develop...

A Numerical Study on Bio-Oil Gasification Using A Multicomponent Approach Bio-oil, also called pyrolysis oil, is a complex biorenewable fuel produced from fast pyrolysis of biomass. Since bio-oil is carbon dioxide neutral, it can be an ideal replacement for petroleum fuel to be used in many kinds...

The University of Kentucky, Center for Applied Energy Research is investigating oxygen carriers (OC) for chemical looping combustion (CLC) with the goal of developing a pressurized chemical looping combustion/gasification process for generating electricity from coal. An important issue in the...

Thermochemical water splitting presents a way to store thermal energy in the chemical bonds of a H 2 molecule. Besides becoming an increasingly important energy carrier, hydrogen already has vast importance in petroleum upgrading and ammonia synthesis. In an effort to improve the Sulfur-Iodine...