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Advanced Biofuels - The Path Forward

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 8, 2009
Oil prices go up and they come down and our ability to forecast them with any real confidence has not been particularly good. A year ago when oil...

Forward Osmosis: Potential Use In Desalination and Water Reuse

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
Abstract There has been a recurring interest in using Forward Osmosis (FO) process in water treatment and desalination. The recent advance in...

Planar Biomimetic Aquaporin-Incorporated Triblock Copolymer Membranes On Porous Solid Supports

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
The aim of the present study was to demonstrate the preparation and characterization of planar biomimetic bacterial water-channel protein Aquaporin Z...

Temperature Distribution In Activated Carbon Bed During Adsorption of Nitrogen (model gas for hydrogen); Experiment & Mathematical Model

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Temperature distribution in activated carbon bed during adsorption of nitrogen (model gas for hydrogen); experiment & mathematical model...

A Sulfur-Sulfur Thermochemical Water Splitting Cycle for Thermal-to-Chemical Energy Conversion

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Thermochemical water splitting presents a way to store thermal energy in the chemical bonds of a H 2 molecule. Besides becoming an increasingly...

Transient Heat and Mass Transfer Analysis of a Semi-Transparent Reacting Particle Under Non-Uniform High-Flux Irradiation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
A transient three-dimensional heat and mass transfer model is developed for a semi-transparent optically large, non-uniform and non-isothermal...

Renewable Fuel From Activated Sludge Using Fluidized-Bed Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Process

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 19, 2011
Annual production of activated sludges in the United States ranges from 7 – 8 million tons. Currently, disposal technologies of these sludges...

Solar Grade Silicon Production In Fluidized Bed Reactor

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
In this work, we present a multi-scale modeling approach for solar grade silicon production in fluidized bed reactor (FBR) by thermal decomposition...

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