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Reducing Process Complexity for Cellulosic Ethanol

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Much of the process complexity and high capital costs associate with cellulosic ethanol (dilute acid hydrolysis as a pretreatment and enzymatic...

Modelling Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation of Microcrystalline Cellulose Using Computational Fluid Dynamics

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
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...

Optimal Synthesis of Fuel Gas Networks for Energy Sustainability

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
The world is facing two critical and inseparable issues in energy and climate change. The fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) that supply over...

A Novel Reactive Distillation Approach for Producing 1,3-Dihydroxyacetone From Glycerol

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 19, 2011
Glycerol is a viable renewable feedstock that has emerged as a consequence of triglyceride conversion to biodiesel. In addition to glycerol...

Evaluation of Reaction Conversion and Energy Consumption During Biodiesel Production Using a High Shear Mixer Pilot Scale Reactor

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 11, 2009
Biodiesel is a renewable fuel that has the potential to lower vehicle sulfur emissions when used directly or in a blended form, and can be...

Kinetics of CO2 Absorption Into Aqueous Potassium Carbonate Solution Promoted by Carbonic Anhydrase Enzyme

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
A novel Integrated Vacuum Carbonate Absorption Process (IVCAP) for post-combustion CO 2 capture is being developed at the University of Illinois at...

The Application of a Model Predictive Control-Based Approach to CO2 Capture Processes: Towards Operational Cost Minimisation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Amine-based chemisorption of CO 2 is a promising near term option for the decarbonisation of large, fixed-point CO 2 emission sources [1] . However,...

CO2 Separation From Coal-Fired Power Plants by Regenerable Mg(OH)2 Solutions

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
AICHE ABSTRACT CO 2 Separation from Coal-Fired Power Plants by Regenerable Mg(OH) 2 Solutions Hari K. Bharadwaj † , Joo-Youp Lee † *, Xiang Zhou ‡ ,...

Synthesis of Optimal Adsorptive Carbon Capture Processes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Solid sorbent carbon capture systems have the potential to require significantly lower regeneration energy compared to aqueous monoethanol amine (MEA...

A Methodology for Risk Assessment of CO2 Sequestration Based On Surrogate Models of Detailed Simulations

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Large scale implementation of CO2 geologic sequestration requires detailed uncertainty analysis and risk assessment for leakage potential...

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