2016 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Sustainable Chemicals: Advances in Innovative Processes

session on sustainable chemical processes

Chair

Debalina Sengupta, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

Co-Chair

Ralph W. Pike, Louisiana State University

Presentations

08:30 AM

(315a) Estimating the Life Cycle Impact of Chemicals from Molecular Descriptors and Thermodynamic Properties Via Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
Gonzalo Guillén-Gosálbez, María González Miquel, Stavros Papadokonstantakis, Raul Calvo-Serrano

08:55 AM

(315b) Optimal Production of Light Olefins from Lignocellulosic Biomass (BTO): Process Synthesis and Global Optimization
Christodoulos A. Floudas, Alexander M. Niziolek, Onur Onel

09:20 AM

(315c) Sub and Supercritical Conversion of Kirchneriella Algal Biomass into Biocrude Oil
Tapaswy Muppaneni, Kodanda Phani Raj Dandamudi, Melvin Mathew, Peter Lammers, Shuguang Deng

09:45 AM

(315d) Selective Aromatic Ring-Opening of Biorefinery Lignin Towards Dicarboxylic Acids:  Influence of Reaction Temperature and pH
Dylan Cronin

10:10 AM

(315e) Lignin in Ethylene Glycol and Poly(Ethylene Glycol): Fortified Lubricants with Internal Hydrogen Bonding
Liwen Mu, Yijun Shi, Jiahua Zhu

10:35 AM

(315f) Enzyme Selection for Hydrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass Coupled with Fermentation
Heinz A. Preisig, Cansu Birgen