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Battery Design for Large Lithium and Zinc Batteries

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 11, 2009
A battery design is being evaluated which is particularly useful for larger battery applications such as in PHEV and electrical grid applications...

Catalytic Deoxygenation of Free Fatty Acids Over Pd/C

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 8, 2009
Introduction Environmental concerns and dwindling world petroleum reserves have generated great interest in producing transportation fuels from bio-...

Catalytic Conversion of Biomass Into Carboxylic Acids Via APPO Process

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Converting raw solid biomass into liquid or gas phase intermediates which can be readily upgraded to hydrocarbon fuels is the most challenging or...

Deepwater Drilling Regulations In the Gulf of Mexico

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 16, 2011
Deepwater Regulations in the Gulf of Mexico The Deepwater Horizon incident (DWH) of April 2010 led to many changes in deepwater operations in the...

Hose: PRESSURE-Assisted Extraction of Bitumen FROM OIL SANDS for High YIELD and Environmetally Acceptable BYPRODUCTS

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Hot water extraction of bitumen from oil sands has been commercially applied for decades. The extraction process is greatly aided by the addition of...

Hydrogen-Bromine Flow Battery for Large-Scale Electrical Energy Storage

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Abstract Renewable energy, including wind and solar, could supply a significant amount of electrical energy in the United States and around the world...

Development of a Compact Fischer Tropsch Reactor

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Fischer Tropsch (FT) synthesis is a polymerization process where a CH X species is added to a growing aliphatic chain. There are several models of...

A Model-Assisted Tool for the Characterization of Char In Biomass Pyrolysis and Biomass Catalytic Pyrolysis

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Coke formation appears as a reason for catalyst deactivation and results in undesirable product selectivity in biomass pyrolysis. However, there is...

Supercritical CO2 Extraction for Algal Biodiesel Production

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
SC-CO2 is cleaner green technology for extraction of algal lipids/oils for algal biodiesel production. This work offers an optimized method for the...

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