2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Advances in Biofuels Production and Alternative Fuels I

This session requests papers that highlight recent research development towards the production of biofuels and alternative fuels to decarbonize sectors such as sustainable aviation fuels and marine fuels from renewable feedstocks such as biomass, municipal solid waste and others, via biochemical and/or thermochemical processes

Chair

Karthikeyan Ramasamy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Co-Chair

Shu Wang, Aspentech

Presentations

08:00 AM

(77a) Opportunities and Challenges of Renewable Fuels Use for Inland Marine Sector: Life Cycle and Technoeconomic Analyses
Livia M. M. Benvenutti, Saurajyoti Kar, Christopher P. Kolodziej, Shuyun Li, Mariefel V. Olarte, Eric Tan, Pahola Thathiana Benavides, Farhad H. Masum

08:17 AM

(77b) Techno-Economic Assessment of Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production from Biogas through Bio-Methanol Production and Methanol-to-Jet Pathway
Pierre Guilloteau, Anker D. Jensen, Gurkan Sin

08:34 AM

(77c) Synthetic Aviation Fuel from Co-HTL of Anaerobic Digestion-Derived Biosolids and Wastewater-Grown Algae: A Combined Experimental Study and Techno-Economic Assessment
Abhishek Kumar, Jacob Watkins, Dylan Cronin, Andrew J. Schmidt, Daniel Santosa, Zhibin Yang, Joshua Heyne, Peter Valdez

08:51 AM

(77d) Novel Reactor for in Situ Measurement of the Dielectric Constant to Tune Hydrothermal Processes
San Lin Htun, Jillian L. Goldfarb

09:08 AM

(77e) Use of Co-Solvent on the Financial Viability Ofbio-Crude Production By HTL.
David Ocampo, Gabriel Vargas, Esteban Ocampo, Luis A. Ríos, Elkin A. Gómez

09:25 AM

(77f) Production of Liquid Fuels Via Chemical Looping of Biomass: A Techno-Economic Comparison with Conventional Routes
Krutarth Pandit, Ishani Karki Kudva, Shekhar Shinde, Christian Boose, Liang-Shih Fan

09:42 AM

(77g) Optimization of Biodiesel Production from Waste Cooking Oil Using Supercritical Methanol: A Combined Experimental and Modeling Study
Jon Selimi, Essra Altahir, Abdullah H. Albin Saad, Rashed M. Aleisa, Christian P. Hulteberg, Omar Y. Abdelaziz

09:59 AM

(77i) Pilot-Scale Demonstration of Hydrogen Release from Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers (LOHCs) for Heavy-Duty Mobility Applications
Sayandeep Biswas, Kariana Moreno-Sader, Akshat Shirish Zalte, Ahmet Alper Yontar, William Green