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Energy Systems Design and Alternative Energy Sources I

Thursday, October 20, 2011: 8:30 AM
101 D (Minneapolis Convention Center)

Description:
With the increasing energy consumption of the world, it has become necessary to design efficient energy systems and also explore alternative energy sources. This session will focus on recent research work in these areas of energy systems design and alternative energy sources.


Sponsor:
Systems and Process Design
Co-Sponsor(s):
Fuels and Petrochemicals Division (16)


Chair:
Prakash Kotecha
Email: prakash@vri-custom.org

Co-Chair:
Thomas A. Adams II
Email: tadams@mcmaster.ca



8:30 AM
(647a) Process Optimization of Bioethanol Production Via Hydrolysis of Switchgrass
Mariano Martín and Ignacio E. Grossmann


8:50 AM
(647b) Optimization Framework for the Process Synthesis and Simultaneous Heat and Power Integration of a Thermochemical Coal, Biomass, and Natural Gas to Liquids Facility
Richard Baliban, Josephine A. Elia and Christodoulos A. Floudas


9:10 AM
(647c) Process Synthesis of Biodiesel Production Plant Using Artificial Neural Networks As the Surrogate Models
Ismail Fahmi and Selen Cremaschi


9:30 AM
(647d) An Integrated Biofuels Strategy: Catalytic Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels
Sercan Murat Sen, Carlos A. Henao, Elif I. Gurbuz, David Martin Alonso, James A. Dumesic and Christos Maravelias


9:50 AM
(647e) A Life Cycle-Based Analysis and Optimization Framework for Designing Sustainable, Multi-Product Biomass-to-Bioproducts Value Chains
Paritosh K. Sharma and Jose A. Romagnoli


10:10 AM
(647f) Decomposition Strategy for the Global Optimization of Energy Polygeneration Systems
Yang Chen, Xiang Li, Thomas A. Adams II and Paul Barton
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