793 Reaction Kinetics and Transport Fundamentals for Biomass Conversion

Friday, November 8, 2013: 8:30 AM
Mason A (Hilton)
Description:
This session will emphasize understanding reaction kinetics and transport processes and their effects on the performance of biomass conversion processes. Both modeling and experimental studies are sought, with preference for contributions that develop new fundamental insights.

Sponsor:
Sustainable Biorefineries
Co-Sponsor(s):
BioFuels (T4F)

Chair:
Todd A. Lloyd
Email: tlloyd@mascoma.com

Co-Chair:
Jonathan J. Stickel
Email: jonathan.stickel@nrel.gov


8:30 AM
(793a) Development of Novel Biofilm-Based Reactor Systems for Enhancing Mass Transfer in Syngas Fermentation
Yanwen Shen, Zhiyou Wen and Robert C. Brown

8:51 AM
(793b) On the Fructose Dehydration Kinetics in Aqueous HCl: An Integrated Experimental and Physics-Based Modeling Approach
T. Dallas Swift, Christina Bagia, Vinit Choudhary, Vladimiros Nikolakis and Dionisios G. Vlachos

9:12 AM
(793c) Temperature Dependence of Aspen Torrefaction Reaction Kinetics
Jordan Klinger, Bethany Klemetsrud, David R. Shonnard and Ezra Bar-Ziv, Ph.D.

9:33 AM
(793d) Variable Reaction Order During Anaerobic Digestion of Industrial Wastewaters
Mahyar Ghorbanian, Robert Lupitskyy, Jagannadh Satyavolu and R. Eric Berson

9:54 AM
(793e) Construction of Biomass Particle Models From Microscopy Data for Simulation of Transport Phenomena With Realistic System Geometry
Peter N. Ciesielski, Kara Malhotra, Ray Grout, Bryon S Donohoe, Mark R. Nimlos and Thomas Foust

10:15 AM
(793f) Measuring Free Water Content and Pore-Size Distribution of Biomass
James J. Lischeske, Robert S. Nelson and Jonathan J. Stickel

10:36 AM
(793g) Inline Rheometry to Identify Mass Transfer Issues in Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Biomass At High Solids Concentration
Deepti Tanjore, Jessica Wong, Chenlin Li, James Gardner and Julio Baez
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