Biofuels & Bioproducts – Page 5

Low-cost, concentrated sugar production from lignocellulosic feedstocks

Mohapatra S., Hemyeri R., Manesh A., American Science and Technology Corporation, US

In the last few years, sugar is emerged as the main feedstock to derive several potential biofuels and chemicals. Most of these chemicals can be used to replace petrochemical fuels. The cost availability of these [...]

Use of Bio-Diesel as an Alternative Fuel and its Effects on Environment

Mehta D.P., Vennapureddy A., Bradley University, US

First Law of Thermodynamics states that energy can neither be created nor destroyed but can be changed from one form to another. Stored internal energy of fuels can be released chemically during combustion for doing [...]

Innovative Technology for Algae Dewatering

Hsieh H.B., Chang N., Melde K., Kole A., PARC, a Xerox company, US

This paper describes a novel technology for dewatering of algae for biofuel production and other applications. This hydrodynamic separation (HDS) technology uses customized fluid flow patterns in a curved channel to focus suspended particles into [...]

Interaction of Light, Geothermal Water and Nutrients on Biomass Production of Chlorella sorokiniana Microalgae (CS-101)

Rastegary J., New Mexico State University, US

Little, if any, published data exist on growing algae in geothermal water. Geothermal water is a source of water rich in nutrient content and can be used for biofuel production. In this study geothermal water [...]

Bio Sources for Materials & Fuels

CO, CO2 and CH4 Gas Adsorption (Pure and Binary) on Cu-BTC and MIL-101 Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs)

Chowdhury P., National Institute of Technology Rourkela, IN

Here, we present a comparative study on gas adsorption of CO, CO2 and CH4 on two of the most versatile MOFs reported till date: Cu-BTC (or, HKUST-1) and MIL-101 (or, Cr-BDC). The high pressure (0-100 [...]

Ionic Liquids as Sorption Cooling Media

Schubert T.J.S., Beyersdorff T., Sauer S., Römich C., Merkel N., Schaber M. Koch K., Iolitec - Ionic Liquids Technologies GmbH, DE

We have shown their use in a sorption cooling device in cooperation with the institute of technical thermodynamic Karlsruhe (ITTK). To realize an absorption-based system with a working pair using an IL instead of common [...]

Conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol

Rahman G., Chung Y.H., Hallym University, KR

Carbon dioxide has been converted to methanol by means of electrochemical reduction using electrodes of metal oxides. The electrodes used in the conversion of CO2 consisted of Ru/Ir/Co oxides in the atomic ratios of Ru/Ir/Co [...]

Cleaning the Engine Exhaust without Precious Metal Catalysts

Gokturk H., Ecoken, US

Internal combustion engine which serves as the main driver of modern transportation emits a number of pollutants which include carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, hydrocarbons and micrometer size particulates. Carbon dioxide (CO2), which is not a [...]

Status of CO2 Capture Technologies

Bhown A.S., Electric Power Research Institute, US

EPRI has an on-going effort to understand the landscape of postcombustion CO2 capture technologies globally, and accelerate their development. Several central issues facing CO2 capture involving scale, energy, and overall status of development will be [...]