Tuesday, April 28, 2009: 2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Room 3 (Tampa Convention Center)
#68 - Biofuels Process Development (12A01)
Biofuels process development is exploding due to high crude oil prices, desire for energy independence, and government subsidy. Many challenges exist in design of economic processes, including selective production of targeted fuels, scaling considerations to cope with limited collection radius, processing characteristics of select feedstocks, feedstock drying and water removal from final products, reaction pathways to designer fuels. Included are both metabolic engineering and bioprocessing, as well as thermochemical / catalytic treatment of biomass feedstocks. Please note that some presentations are not available for webcasting.
Chair:Mitch Loescher
CoChair:Joe Schroer
2:00 PM68aReview of State-of-the-Art in Biomass Gasification Technologies (Webcast Not Available)
Mahesh V. Iyer, Joseph B. Powell
2:30 PM68bInvestigation of Effects of Coal and Biomass Contaminants on the Performance of Water-Gas-Shift and Fischer-Tropsch Catalysts
Gökhan Alptekin, Ambalavanan Jayaraman, Margarita Dubovik, Matthew Schaefer, Robert Amalfitano, Lauren Brickner
3:00 PM68cFuels from Biomass Via High Temperature Water (Webcast Not Available)
Joseph B. Powell
3:30 PM68dKinetic Modeling of Oxidative-Short-Term Lime Pretreatment of Biomass
Rocio Sierra, Mark Holtzapple
4:00 PM68eConversion of Lignocellulose and Other Waste Biomass into Ketones and Hydrocarbon Biofuels: The MixAlco Process, Semi-Works Plant Results
Cesar B. Granda, Mark T. Holtzapple, Gary W. Luce, Ray H. Griggs
4:30 PM68fRecovery of Chemicals Produced by Acidogenic Fermentation
Emilie Fockedey, Patrick Gerin, Juray De Wilde
5:00 PM68gSolvent Evaluation for Ecogasoline Production Via Two Step Process
Alberto J. Baumeister, Sebastiano Giardinella, Katiuska C. Marquez

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