Presentations -

Supercritical Water Gasification

M.L. Thomas, A.K. Dalai, J.A. Kozinski

Agricultural Biorefinery Innovation Network conference (London, Canada) , 

2011.01

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Oral presentation (general)

Continuous conversion of waste pinewood to fuels in supercritical water

I.S. Butler, M.L. Thomas, J.A. Kozinski

CSChE 2010 (London, Canada) , 

2010.10

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Poster presentation, Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering

in situ vibrational spectroscopy and continuous flow studies of the transformation of waste wood to fuels in supercritical water

I.S. Butler, M.L. Thomas, J.A. Kozinski

International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry (Ottawa, Canada) , 

2010.08

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Oral presentation (general), International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

SUNFUEL: Conversion of Waste Biomass to Biofuels - Initial Spectroscopic and Small-Scale Continuous Flow Reactor Investigations in Supercritical Water

M.L. Thomas, I.S. Butler, J.A. Kozinski

AIChE Spring Meeting (San Antonio, USA) , 

2010.03

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Oral presentation (general), American Institute of Chemical Engineers

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In the SUNFUEL project, the dissolution and subsequent reaction of real biomass feedstocks in this high-temperature environment, the optimization of a reactor design for biofuel production, and testing the fuel products for combustion properties are studied. Initial results of the SUNFUEL project, i.e., vibrational spectroscopic data from a hydrothermal diamond-anvil cell (HDAC) and information obtained from studies using a small-scale continuous flow reactor, are presented. In this first stage of the project, pinewood and pinewood waste were considered as the feedstock. This feedstock is of considerable interest because large quantities of mountain pine beetle-infested lodgepole pine from Western Canada may be available as a feedstock for fuel production. The dissolution of biomass can be conveniently visualised using a hydrothermal diamond-anvil cell. Initial results on the application of vibrational spectroscopy using the HDAC to study the fundamental processes involved in the dissolution of biomass and in its transformations into bio-oil and gases are presented. Data from experiments employing a small-scale continuous flow reactor are also presented. This is an abstract of a paper presented at the AIChE 2010 Spring National Meeting (San Antonio, TX 3/21-25/2010).

Development of high pressure conversion methods for a variety of waste biomass feedstocks

M.L. Thomas, J. Sontakke, M. Hude, A. Dalai, J. A. Kozinski

Agricultural Biorefinery Innovation Network conference (London, Canada) , 

2010.03

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Poster presentation

Dehydrogenation in high temperature water

M.L. Thomas, J. Fraga-Dubreuil, P. Hamley, M. Poliakoff

International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry (Dresden, Germany) , 

2006.09

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Poster presentation, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

Research Twinning at the University of Nottingham - ‘Green Chemistry’

D. Davies, A. Murphy, P. Read, M.L. Thomas, S. Tang, M. Poliakoff

International IUPAC Conference on Green Chemistry (Dresden, Germany) , 

2006.09

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Poster presentation, International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry

Dehydrogenation in high temperature water

M.L.Thomas, J. Fraga-Dubreuil, P. Hamley, M. Poliakoff

Gordon Research Conference - Green Chemistry (Oxford, UK) , 

2006.08

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2006.09

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Poster presentation

Catalysis in Supercritical Water

M. Thomas, J. Fraga-Dubreuil, P. Hamley, M. Poliakoff

Catalysis and Biocatalysis in Green Chemistry (Cambridge, UK) , 

2005.12

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Poster presentation, Royal Society of Chemistry

Catalysis in Supercritical Water

M. Thomas, J. Fraga-Dubreuil, P. Hamley, M. Poliakoff

Liverpool Catalysis Summer School (Liverpool, UK) , 

2005.09

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Poster presentation, Royal Society of Chemistry

Catalytic Reactions in Supercritical Water

M. Thomas, J. Fraga-Dubreuil, P. Hamley, M. Poliakoff

Netherlands' Catalysis and Chemistry Conference (Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands) , 

2005.03

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Poster presentation