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The Production of Fuel Grade Butanol From Algal Carbohydrates Utilizing a Hybrid Biological and Chemical Process

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Butanol has the potential to become a superior renewable fuel, either as a mixture with petroleum derived gasoline or as a stand-alone, neat fuel...

Hydrogen Production From Deliquescence of Ammonia Borane

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Chemical hydride is one of the most potential hydrogen storage materials which can effectively increase hydrogen storage capacity. To meet the new...

Material and Engineering Assessments of Electrochemical Processes for Carbon Capture Technology

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Integrating carbon capture technology with large source carbon emitters is necessary in the very near future to mitigate the contribution of...

Synthesis of Green Diesel Fuel From Fatty Acid Feedstocks Via Electrochemical Hofer-Moest Decarboxylation

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Production of biodiesel by esterification or transesterification of long-chain fatty acids is a well known process, but the fuel product has...

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...

Study On the Pyrolysis Characteristics of Biomass Compositions In Medical Wastes

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Study on the Pyrolysis Characteristics of Biomass Compositions in Medical Wastes DENG Na * , Wang Weiwei, ZHANG Yu-feng, MA Hong-ting ( School of...

The Capture of Carbon Dioxide by Ionic Liquid

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Ionic liquid is one kind of organic salts with negligible volatile pressure which might lead to promising substitute candidates for alkanolamines in...

An Integrated Lipid-Based Platform for “Drop-In” Fuel Biorefinery

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
A major challenge in developing biorefinery is that the availability of biomass often limits the scale of the plant thus the feasibility of an...

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...

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...

Oxidation of Polyols Using Au-Pd and Au-Pt Alloy Supported Nanocrystals

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Oxidation of polyols using Au-Pd and Au-Pt alloy supported nanocrystals Peter Miedziak a , Gemma L. Brett a , Yulia Ryabenkova a , Nikolaos...

Phase-Changing Absorbents for CO2 Capture

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
A process to capture CO 2 from flue gas using a liquid material that reacts rapidly with CO 2 to form a solid offers many advantages over...

Biomimicry of the Fungal Consolidation of Biomass Pretreatment with Saccharification

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
Efficient breakdown of ligno-cellulosic material prior to fermentation for bio-fuel production is a key step in optimizing bio-fuel production...

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...

Comparison of Amine-Based Absorbents for Post-Combustion Carbon Capture

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 18, 2011
As a part of this work, we have performed a comparison of 4 amine-based absorbents using the process simulation software ProMax ® with TSWEET...

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...

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