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Biomass to Liquids from Pine Beetle Kill via Syngas

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Biomass to Liquids from Pine Beetle Kill via Syngas

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Alhaji, Hussain Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Cheah, Yi Ern Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Fogleman, Chris Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Norton, Tyler Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Tolman, Thomas Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Harris, Dr. H. Gordon Role :Text(marcrelator)
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Laramie, Wyoming
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2009-05-12

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There is approximately two million acres of mountain pine beetle infested forest in the state of Colorado, which poses a potential fire hazard to many of Colorado’s recreational and ski resorts. Forestry officials across the state are encouraging use of massive amounts of infested wood to help reduce this risk of wildfires. This abundance of pine beetle killed trees has also given birth to a possible new source of energy. The objective of this project was to design a plant to convert beetlekilled trees near Granby, Colorado, to biofuels via a syngas route, and investigate project financial feasibility. The plant was designed to process 100-tons of beetle-killed trees a day and produce two million gallons of biofuel a year. Two processing schemes were investigated; both involved preprocessing and gasification of the pine wood biomass to produce syngas, but the syngas upgrading stage differed. The first scheme encompassed the use of combined steam reforming and water gas shift reactors (WGSR) to produce clean syngas as a reactant to the Fischer-Tropsch reactors. The Fischer-Tropsch then produces a series of liquid hydrocarbons. The second project involved the use of microorganisms to clean up the dirty syngas from the gasification process, followed by a series of evaporators and distillation columns to obtain a final product of pure ethanol. note
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Pine Beetle

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Biofuels

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pine wood biomass

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water gas shift reactors

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Fischer-Tropsch reactors

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mountain pine beetle

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Undergrauate Research Day 2009

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