2016 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

Hsi-Wu Wong, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Presentations

03:15 PM

(432a) Catalytic Co-Pyrolysis of Microalgae and Low Density Polyethylene Waste to Aromatic Hydrocarbons Using Activated Carbon
Emmanuel Ansah, Lijun Wang

03:35 PM

(432b) Modeling the Impact of Biomass Particle Residence Time on Fast Pyrolysis Yield and Composition
Gavin Wiggins, C. Stuart Daw, Emilio Ramirez

03:55 PM

(432c) Ring-Locking Enables Selective Anhydrosugar Synthesis from Carbohydrate Pyrolysis
Li Chen, Jin-mo Zhao, Sivaram Pradhan, Bruce E. Brinson, Gustavo E. Scuseria, Z.Conrad Zhang, Michael Wong

04:15 PM

(432d) Pyrolysis Kinetics to and from Levoglucosan
Vikram Seshadri, Phillip R. Westmoreland

04:35 PM

(432e) Molecular-Level Simulation of Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA): A Cellulose Pyrolysis Example
Juan Lucio-Vega, Scott R. Horton, Michael Klein

04:55 PM

(432f) Impact of Carrier Gas and Temperature on Biomass Fast Pyrolysis Using a New Microsphere Microreactor Approach
Joseph J. Biernacki, Ali Zolghadr

05:15 PM

(432g) Study of Transmethylation As Primary Step on the Decomposition of Methoxy-Rich Lignin Model Compound over Zeolite Catalyst
Fidalgo Beatriz, Zhang Jiajun, Shen Dekui