Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

Biomass & Biofuels

Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

Current & potential outupt

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Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

Characterization

Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

Anaerobic digestion

Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

Reactor designs

Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

Thermal gasifi cation - steps

Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

Grain ethanol production

Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

Cellulose ethanol production

Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

The Fischer-Tropsch process

Franz Fischer Hans Tropsch

Coal to liquid fuel plant in WWII

Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

Pyrolysis oils

Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

Algal biomass

Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

Direct combustion for power gen

Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

Combustors

Fall 2011 ME 217 Energy, Enviironment & Society Lecture 7: bioenergy

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