Preliminary Program subject to change
TB005 Thermochemical Conversion of Forest & Other Biomass to Fuels and Chemicals
OverviewPapers in this session will descibe the progress and difficulty of converting forest biomass to bio-fuels
Primary SponsorTopical B: Energy Processes (TB)
Co-Sponsor(s)Energy Conversion (07f), Biotechnology (07q), Process Development (09d), Bioengineering (15c), Fuels and Petrochemicals Division (16)

Chair

Masahiro Kawaji
Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry
University of Toronto
200 College Street
Toronto, ON M2K 2H6
Canada
Phone Number: 416-978-3064
Fax Number: 416-978-8605
Email: kawaji@ecf.utoronto.ca

CoChair

Hemant P. Pendse
Professor and Chair
Department of Chemical and Biological Enineering
University of Maine
5737 Jenness Hall, Room 115
Orono, ME 04469-5737
Phone Number: 207-581-2290
Fax Number: 207-581-2323
Email: pendse@maine.edu
The Canadian University Biorefining Network: an R&D Power House
Thomas Browne, Paprican, 570 Boul. St-Jean, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 3J9, Canada, Richard Kerekes, Chemical Engineering, University of British Columbia, 2385 East Mall, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4, Canada and Jean Paris, Chemical Engineering, École Polytechnique, C.P. 6079, succ. Centre-ville, Montréal, QC H3C 3A7, Canada
Process Analysis and Optimization for Transportation Liquid Fuel Production by BTL (Biomass to Liquids) Process
Shinji Fujimoto1, Takashi Yanagida1, Kenji Asano1, Akira Yabe2 and Tomoaki Minowa1, (1)Biomass Technology Research Center, National institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2-2-2 Hiro-Suehiro, Kure, 737-0197, Japan, (2)National institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), 2-2-2 Hiro-Suehiro, Kure, 737-0197, Japan
Clean Gas from Biomass by Catalytic Filtration
Lina Ma and Gino V. Baron, Dept. Chemical Engineering, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Pleinlaan 2, Brussel, B-1050, Belgium
Production and Separation of Fermentation-Derived Acetic Acid
Seth W. Snyder, Energy Systems, Argonne National Laboratory, ESD-362, Argonne, IL 60439

Topical B: Energy Processes