2014 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass I

This session focuses on thermochemical conversion of lignocellulosic biomass, which includes the production of liquid intermediates and syngas, its upgrading and cleanup process, and the analysis of materials and products.

Chair

Sunkyu Park, North Carolina state university

Co-Chair

Catherine Brewer, New Mexico State University

Presentations

08:30 AM

(474a) Calcium Pretreatment and the Resulting Compositional Changes in Pyrolysis Oils
Paige Case, M. Clayton Wheeler, William J. DeSisto

08:55 AM

(474b) Pyrolysis of Woody Residues: Impact of Mineral Content
Kristiina Iisa, Alan H Zacher, Robert Sykes, Fernando Preto, Benjamin Bronson

09:20 AM

(474c) Effects of Biomass Inorganic Elements on Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis over HZSM-5
Charles A. Mullen, Akwasi A. Boateng

09:45 AM

(474d) Empirical Approaches to Predict Fast-Pyrolysis Products By Feedstock Characterization and Py-MBMS Analysis
Hoyong Kim, Carlos Aizpurua, Xueyong Ren, Stephen Kelley, Hasan Jameel, Sunkyu Park

10:10 AM

(474e) Levulinate and Formate Salt Reactions during Thermal Deoxygenation (TDO)
Scott Eaton, M. Clayton Wheeler

10:35 AM

(474f) In-Situ Catalytic Upgrading of Pyrolysis Vapors in a Bench-Scale Fluidized Bed Reactor
Ravishankar Mahadevan