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Characterization of Fuel Conversion in Coal Char-Fueled Chemical Looping Combustion Using Iron Based Oxygen Carrier

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2014
Chemical looping combustion (CLC) for power generation has the inherent potential of enriching CO 2 from flue gases with low energy penalty compared...

Design and Performance of a Novel Reverse-Flow Fixed-Bed Reactor for Chemical-Looping Combustion

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2014
Design and performance of a novel reverse-flow fixed-bed reactor for chemical-looping combustion Lu Han , Zhiquan Zhou, George M. Bollas Abstract The...

Identification of Advanced Electrolytes for Non-Aqueous Redox Flow Batteries Via High-Throughput Screening Technique

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2014
2,5-di-tert-butyl-1,4-bis(2-methoxyethoxy)benzene (DBBB) has been identified as a promising active species for non-aqueous redox flow batteries...

Evaluation of Oxidized Mercury Species Desorbed from Hg Sorbents for Coal-Fired Flue Gas Applications

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2014
Mercury exists in various forms in the flue gases of coal combustion, from its elemental state (Hg 0 ) at the boiler exit, to various oxidized forms...

A Zinc-Iron Redox Flow Battery for High-Performance and Low-Cost Energy Storage

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2014
Redox flow batteries are considered the most promising scalable technology for the storage of renewable wind and solar electricity. We have developed...

Simulation of Stirred Tank Hydrodynamics Using Mesh and Meshless Methods

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
November 20, 2014
Smoothed particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) is a mesh-free method based on the lagrangian formulation, used in the simulation of fluid flow. SPH relies on...

2014 Chem-E-Car Winners Announced & Official Video

November 19, 2014
University of Utah took the 1st place Chem-E-Car Award this year coming in at 2.9. Manhattan College and University of Toledo took the 2nd and 3rd place awards, coming in at 7.5 and 9 respectively.

Sustainable Supply Chain Design (SSCD) Scientific Workshop

Monday, September 12, 2011, 8:00am EDT to Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 4:30pm EDT
Links to presentations and the final report from this workshop are now available. Sponsored by the U.S. EPA, NSF, and AIChE, the Sustainable Supply Chain Design (SSCD) Scientific Workshop brought together a diverse group of researchers and other professionals with experience relevant to sustainable supply chain design.Read more

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