2008 Annual Meeting

Session: Processes in the Forest Products Industry: Separations and Transport.

This session is focused on process engineering in the forest products industry. New processes involving separations and the development of new products are particularly sought.

Chair

Sridharan Ramaswamy, University of Minnesota

Presentations

12:30 PM

(665a) Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Wood Drying Process Using Modified Infra-Red Heating Treatment
Erzsébet Cserta, László Könözsy, Gergely Heged?s, Harald Raupenstrauch

01:00 PM

(665b) Particle and Bubble Interactions Visualized In Flotation Systems
Steve R. Duke, Gopal Krishnagopalan, Zachery Emerson

01:30 PM

(665c) Integrated Biorefinery Approach in a Conventional Kraft Pulp Mill Using Hemicellulose Pre-Extraction for Ethanol Production
Hua-jiang Huang, Sridharan Ramaswamy, Waleed Wafa Al-Dajani, Ulrike Tschirner

02:00 PM

(665d) Degradation of Polylactide Films in Water and Moisture
Yuyang Liu, Ulrike Tschirner, Sridharan Ramaswamy

02:30 PM

Panel Discussion