2014 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass III

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

Yun-quan Liu, Xiamen University

Co-Chairs

Michael T. Timko, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Sunkyu Park, North Carolina state university

Presentations

03:15 PM

(596a) Biomass Pyrolysis Reaction Kinetics Using Step-Isothermal Thermogravimetry and TGA/MS
Kyriacos Zygourakis, Catherine Brewer

03:40 PM

(596b) Structural and Compositional Transformations of Biomass Chars during Slow and Fast Pyrolysis
Anna Trubetskaya, Anker D. Jensen, Peter Glarborg, Hartmut Spliethoff, Markus Steibel, Peter Arendt Jesen

04:05 PM

(596c) Catalytic Enhancement of Alkaline Thermal Treatment of Cellulose to H2 in the Presence of Ca(OH)2 and Mg(OH)2
Thomas Ferguson, Ah-Hyung Alissa Park, Jingguang G. Chen, Maxim Stonor

04:30 PM

(596d) Warm Syngas Cleanup Using Carbon-Based Sorbents
Jiajia Meng, Patrick Woolcock, Tim Hansen, Kevin McCabe, Andrew Lucero, Santosh Gangwal

04:55 PM

(596e) Parametric Gasification Study Comparing Traditional and Blended Feedstocks at Varying Conditions
Whitney S. Jablonski

05:20 PM

(596f) Experimental Determination of the Structural Evolution of Biomass Particles during Gasification
Rui Li, Lijun Wang, John Eshun, Abloghasem Shahbazi