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May 2012

Novel Reactor Design for Conversion of Waste Oils to Biodiesel

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Biodiesel is a renewable, carbon-neutral fuel that can ease pressure on the world’s dwindling supply of oil and petroleum diesel. This research...

Ab-Initio Study of Glycerol Dehydration Mechanisms with Explicit Solvent Treatment

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Glycerol produced as a waste product in biodiesel production has interesting potential as a low-cost biomass-derived feedstock for chemical...

Sub- and Supercritical Water Based Processes for Conversion of Algae Biomass to Fuels and Green Chemicals – A Review

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Sub- and Supercritical Water Based Processes for Conversion of Algae Biomass to Fuels and Green Chemicals – A Review Philip A. Marrone and Bryan V...

Direct Coupled Catalytic Upgrading of Multi-Stage Pyrolysis Bio-Oil Vapors

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
A two-stage pyrolysis was conducted in this work. The purpose of the multiple stages is to provide a segregated product evolution in which the vapor...

Torrefaction of Switchgrass As a Pretreatment for Catalytic Upgrading of Pyrolysis

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
The objective of this work is to use thermal pretreatment to separate the complex bio-oil mixture to produce less complex vapor streams of products...

The Influence of Nickel Phosphide On the Fractional Catalytic Pyrolysis of Hybrid Poplar Wood

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
The pyrolytic conversion of biomass to into liquid fuels has the potential to become drop-in transportation fuels if some of its negative attributes...

Conversion of Cellobiose Into Glucose At near-Neutral pH Using a Recyclable Heterogeneous Catalyst

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Strong acids under severe reaction conditions are known to rapidly hydrolyze cellulose with moderate selectivity towards glucose; however, enzymes in...

Study of Culture Strategies of Microalgae In a Continuous Photobioreactor System for Biofuel Production

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
The development of new biomass sources for alternative fuels has become a subject of increasing importance as the nation strives to resolve the...

Component and Performance Analysis of Vanadium Redox Flow Batteries: Experimental and Modeling Studies

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
One major issue limiting the implementation of renewable energy sources is the lack of efficient, cost-effective, and reliable energy storage...

High Energy Density Lithium Flow Battery Design

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 17, 2011
Traditional sandwich cell battery chemistries are used in a flow cell where a pump circulates fluid between electrodes through a permeable membrane...

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