Colin Smith

Fall 2007 to present
Mechanical Engineering, Cockrell School of Engineering
Research Topic: Novel thermochemical pathways for biofuels conversion

 

Biomass, including pure ethanol, wet ethanol, vegetable oil, acetic acid (an oil surrogate), pyrolysis oils and algae oil, will be converted to syngas using a porous media reactor. The large scale impacts of the research results and the potential for commercial adoption of the conversion technology will then be assessed.