2018 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Life Cycle Analysis of Bio-Based Fuels, Energy, and Chemicals

This session invites abstracts dealing with "cradle-to-grave" environmental life cycle assessments of bio-based fuels, energy and chemicals derived from biological feedstocks. Greenhouse gas emissions are of particular interest but other impacts such as water use / quality, biodiversity, ecosystem and soil health are relevant. Effects on LCA results of study assumptions and methods such as system boundary, data source, and allocation are welcomed.

Chair

Yuan Yao, Yale University

Co-Chair

David R. Shonnard, Michigan Technological University

Presentations

12:30 PM

Olumide Winjobi, Hossein Hossein Tavakoli, Robert Handler, Terry Marker, David R. Shonnard, Bethany Klemetsrud, Michael Roberts

12:55 PM

01:20 PM

01:45 PM

Ryan J. Quinn, HakSoo Ha, Rohit Bhonagiri, Timothy A. Volk, Tristan Brown, Diane Kiernan, Robert Malmsheimer, Marie-Odile Fortier

02:10 PM

Jaykumar Mavani, Jorge E. Gatica, Michel Kahwaji Janho, Mauricio Colombo, Fernando Daniel Mele, María Rosa Hernández