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ICFAR Headlines


ICFAR's Grand Opening - October 16, 2009 was a huge success. Thank you to all who participated. Article on UWO's homepage click here. Article from Ministry of Research & Innovation here.


Franco Berruti and Cedric Briens attended the tcbiomass2009 conference in Chicago. Cedric presented "A Mobile Pyrolyzer for the Conversion of Biomass into Bio-Oil", by Cedric Briens, Franco Berruti and Lorenzo Ferrante. For a copy click here.
Franco participated in the pyrolysis panel discussion.
ICFAR also presented two posters:

  • "The Agricultural Biorefinery Innovation Network (ABIN): A Canadian Network for Research in Green Energy, Fuels and Chemicals from Agricultural Residues" by Franco Berruti. Poster can be viewed here.
  • "Characterization of Bio-oils From Agricultural Biomass as Potential Pesticides" by C. J. Booker, P.M. Harden, R. Bedmutha, T. Vogel, A. Gloor, L. Ferrante, I.M. Scott, K.L. Conn, F. Berruti, C. Briens, K.K.-C. Yeung


    • 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering. August 23-27, 2009 ICFAR presented the following papers at the 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering in Montreal:
    1. Assessing the Performance of Liquid Injectors For Fluidized Beds
    2. Intermittent Slug Injection System for Biomass Particles into Fluid Bed Pyrolysis Reactors
    3. Kinetics of the Thermal Cracking of Model Compounds Representative of Biomass, Bio-oils and Fossil Hydrocarbon Feedstocks
    4. Penetration of High Velocity Horizontal Gas Jets Into A Fluidized Bed At High Temperature: Measurements and Numerical Simulation
    5. A commercial-scale mobile pyrolyzer for biomass conversion to bio-oil and bio-char
    6. CFD Modeling of a Fast Gas-Solid Separator For Downer Reactors
    7. Jet-Bed Interaction and Distribution of Liquid Injected into a Large Scale Gas-Solid Fluidized Bed
    8. Gasification of Char From the Flash Pyrolysis of Biomass
    9. Effect of Steam and Oxygen on the Thermal Cracking of Bio-Oil for Syngas Production
    10. Pyrolysis of Dried Distiller’s Grains into Bio-oil in a Bubbling Fluid Bed Pilot Plant and a Commercial Scale Mobile Pyrolyzer
    11. Development and Testing of a Novel Induction Microreactor to Test Catalysts For Bio-Oil Gasification
    12. Thermal Conductivity of Agglomerate Material For Non-Evaporating And Evaporating Conditions
    13. Flash Pyrolysis of Biodiesel Residues
    14. A Mobile Pyrolysis Technology for the Conversion of Biomass into Bio-Oil

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