2014 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Pyrolysis of Biomass

This session will focus on chemistry and reaction engineering of biomass pyrolysis. This includes pyrolysis chemistry of individual biomass-derived polymers (e.g. cellulose), reaction-transport models of biomass particles, and reactor design for pyrolysis of biomass.

Chair

Fernando Resende, University of Washington

Co-Chair

Jesse Bond, Syracuse University

Presentations

03:30 PM

(30a) Acid-Base Bi-Functional Catalysis for Deoxygenation during Cellulose Fast Pyrolysis
Jing Zhang, Yong S. Choi, Michael W. Nolte, Robert Brown, Brent H. Shanks

03:50 PM

(30b) Operando Molecular Spectroscopy during Catalytic Biomass Pyrolysis
Christopher Keturakis, Israel E. Wachs

04:10 PM

(30c) Investigation of Primary and Secondary Reactions during the Pyrolysis of Different Celluloses
Michael W. Nolte, Jing Zhang, Brent H. Shanks

04:30 PM

(30d) Spatiotemporally Resolved Diffuse Reflectance in Situ Spectroscopy (DRiSP) of Pyrolyzing Wood Particles
Alex D. Paulsen, Blake Hough, C. Luke Williams, Andrew R. Teixeira, Daniel T. Schwartz, Jim Pfaendtner, Paul J. Dauenhauer

04:50 PM

(30e) Biomass decomposition reaction sequence analysis using simultaneous gas sampling and temperature measurements
Simona Ciuta, Francesco Patuzzi, Marco J. Castaldi, Marco Baratieri

05:10 PM

(30f) Catalytic Pyrolysis of Char and Coke Precursors: An Investigation of the Formation Mechanisms of Char and Coke
Shoucheng Du, George M. Bollas, Julia Valla, David P. Gamliel

05:30 PM

(30g) A Partial-Combustion Pyrolysis Model for an Energy + Biochar Reactor Design
Kyriacos Zygourakis, Catherine Brewer, Ali Amiri