2017 Annual Meeting

Session: Sustainable Energy from Renewable Resources

Bio-derived liquid fuels can be obtained from a variety of sources. This session will focus on the production of liquid fuels from renewable sources, with emphasis on process design associated with resource conversion into useful products.

Chair

Hanieh Niroomand, Sustainble Energy and Education Research Center (SEERC), The University of Tennessee

Co-Chairs

Vikas Khanna, University of Pittsburgh

Presentations

08:00 AM

(94a) Producing Biocrude from Renewable Feedstocks through Hydrothermal Liquefaction
Yanna Liang, Zheting Bi, Ji Zhang, Zeying Zhu, Tomasz Wiltowski

08:17 AM

(94b) Cell Lysis, Lipid Recovery, and Lipid Hydroprocessing from Oleaginous Yeast
Jacob S. Kruger, Nicholas Cleveland, RouYi Yeap, Tao Dong, Nicholas J. Nagle, Gregg Beckham, James D. McMillan, Mary Biddy

08:34 AM

(94c) Wood Pellet Boiler Heating Systems Evaluation and Optimization
Kui Wang, Philip K. Hopke, Marco Satyro

08:51 AM

(94d) An MILP Model for Integrated Carbon-Free Heat Networks Considering Alternative Energy Vectors
André Prates Pereira, Sheila Samsatli

09:08 AM

(94e) Characterization of Used Cooking Oils and Their Supply Chain for the Exploitation As Raw Materials in Urban Biorefineries
Luz Angela Rincón Vija, Alvaro Orjuela, Paulo Cesar Narváez Rincón, Juan Guillermo Cadavid

09:25 AM

(94f) Electrochemical Activity of Non-Noble Metal Alloy As Catalyst Towards Oxidation of Glycerol in Acidic Media: A Case for the Conceptual Glycerol/Ferric Redox Flow Battery
James Akrasi

09:42 AM

(94g) Fecralloy Catalysts Partially Oxidize Methane to Syngas Selectively
Gregory S. Patience, Daria C. Boffito, Zhenni Ma, Diego C. Pelegrin