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Wiley-Blackwell2014

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Increasing Efficiency of Fuel Ethanol Production from Lignocellulosic Biomass by Process Integration

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The conversion of lignocellulosic biomass to ethanol is currently one of the most popular options for sustainable production of transportation fuel from renewable resources. Due to the resistance of lignin compounds to biological degradation and the import ...

American Chemical Society2013

Development and Application of Devices for Online Trace Element Analysis of Thermal Process Gases from Woody Feedstocks

Marco Wellinger

When using natural or waste wood in thermo-chemical conversion processes, the presence of a number of heteroatoms (e.g. sulfur, chlorine, potassium and sodium or heavy metals) may hinder the processes themselves as well as pose a threat to equipment and/or ...

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Gasification of Hay in a Bench Scale Fluidised Bed Reactor with Emphasis on the Suitability for Gas Turbines

Christian Ludwig, Marco Wellinger

Thermal gasification of pasture plants (hay) is so far considered as difficult mainly due to the high amount of inorganics (ash, alkalis). Under certain circumstances it could be an additional resource for power production. There has been some experiments ...

Elsevier2012

Integration of Life Cycle Assessment in the conceptual design of renewable energy conversion systems

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Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a well-established methodology that has been extensively used for the environmental evaluation of emerging technologies in the field of renewable energy conversion systems. In order to identify effective solutions for impact ...

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Intensity of Light Incident and Photoperiod of LED illumination based system on Scenedesmus vacuolatus growth

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The proposal of SunCHem project is to produce methane from the hydrothermal liquefaction of microalgal biomass and recovery high-value products in a bio-refinery concept. In this sense the Environmental Biotechnology Laboratory of EPFL (LBE) has developing ...

2012

Optimal Process Design for Power Production from Wet Waste Biomass by Hydrothermal Gasification coupled to a Solid Oxide Fuel Cell

Matilde D'Amelio

This report presents a system analysis of the production of electricity from wet waste biomass. A system of Hydrothermal Gasification is coupled with a Hybrid Cycle composed by a SOFC and two Gas Turbines, driven in an inverted Brayton--‐Joule cycle. A the ...

2011

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