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Harnessing Applied Potential for Sunlight Driven CO2 Utilization

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 30, 2012
Escalating CO 2 emissions due to increasing fossil fuel consumption is generally acknowledged as one of the major contributors to global warming...

Effect of Temperature and Oxidizing Medium On Tar Formation in Southern Pine Gasification

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 30, 2012
Synthesis gas (a.k.a. syngas) can be used as a feedstock in industrial applications for electricity, chemical and hydrocarbons production. However,...

Kinetics of Hydrolysis of Sodium Borohydride with Water Vapor

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 30, 2012
Hydrolysis of sodium borohydride is one route for solid state hydrogen storage and release. Compared with the aqueous phase reaction, the hydrolysis...

Multi-Physics Modeling of Auto-Thermal Diesel Surrogate Reforming

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 30, 2012
Abundant supply and existing infrastructure makes diesel a favorable candidate for portable energy supply. Diesel generators are widely used in...

Adsorption Based Hydrogen Storage System; Multiscale Approach and Mathematical Model

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 30, 2012
Adsorption Based Hydrogen Storage System; Multiscale Approach and Mathematical Model Agnieszka Truszkowska 1 , Christopher Loeb 1 and Goran Jovanovic...

Torrefied Biomass As Coal Replacement Fuel: Market Acceptance Challenges Due to the Disruptive Technology

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 30, 2012
Torrefied woody biomass in pelletized or briquette form has been demonstrated to be a functional replacement for coal in powdered coal fired systems...

2012 Annual Meeting Covered by Pittsburgh Tribune Review

October 29, 2012
Craig Davis of VisitPittsburgh along with AIChE Meetings Director Jeff Wood and Marketing Director Tim McCreight were quoted in a story about the Annual Meeting's economic impact on the city of Pittsburgh, despite storm Sandy pushing through the area.

Characterization of Products From High-Pressure Biomass Pyrolysis in an Entrained-Flow Reactor

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 30, 2012
A major advantage of biomass gasification is that any lignocellulosic material can be converted to syngas and subsequently to biofuels. There are...

Fuel Processing: Renaissance of the Second Decade (Keynote)

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 30, 2012
The early development of fuel processing technologies for fuel cell systems was, to a great extent, driven by fuel cell automobile programs. At the...

Assessing the Potential for Large-Scale Utilization of Fossil-Fuel Derived CO2

Conference Presentation
AIChE Annual Meeting
October 30, 2012
Barring the imposition of a carbon tax (or equivalent cap-and-trade program) and corresponding international agreements, it is highly unlikely that...

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