2013 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Reaction Kinetics and Transport Fundamentals for Biomass Conversion

This session will emphasize understanding reaction kinetics and transport processes and their effects on the performance of biomass conversion processes. Both modeling and experimental studies are sought, with preference for contributions that develop new fundamental insights.

Chair

Todd A. Lloyd, Mascoma Corporation

Co-Chair

Jonathan J. Stickel, National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Presentations

08:30 AM

(793a) Development of Novel Biofilm-Based Reactor Systems for Enhancing Mass Transfer in Syngas Fermentation
Yanwen Shen, Zhiyou Wen, Robert C. Brown

08:51 AM

(793b) On the Fructose Dehydration Kinetics in Aqueous HCl: An Integrated Experimental and Physics-Based Modeling Approach
T. Dallas Swift, Christina Bagia, Vinit Choudhary, Vladimiros Nikolakis, Dionisios G. Vlachos

09:12 AM

(793c) Temperature Dependence of Aspen Torrefaction Reaction Kinetics
Jordan Klinger, Bethany Klemetsrud, David R. Shonnard, Ezra Bar-Ziv

09:33 AM

(793d) Variable Reaction Order During Anaerobic Digestion of Industrial Wastewaters
R. Eric Berson, Mahyar Ghorbanian, Robert Lupitskyy, Jagannadh Satyavolu

09:54 AM

(793e) Construction of Biomass Particle Models From Microscopy Data for Simulation of Transport Phenomena With Realistic System Geometry
Peter N. Ciesielski, Kara Malhotra, Ray Grout, Bryon S Donohoe, Mark R. Nimlos, Thomas Foust

10:15 AM

(793f) Measuring Free Water Content and Pore-Size Distribution of Biomass
James J. Lischeske, Robert S. Nelson, Jonathan J. Stickel

10:36 AM

(793g) Inline Rheometry to Identify Mass Transfer Issues in Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Biomass At High Solids Concentration
Deepti Tanjore, Chenlin Li, James Gardner, Jessica Wong, Julio Baez