Workshop: Symposium on Thermal Deconstruction of Biomass

研讨会：生物质热解构研讨会

• 批准号: 1743792
• 负责人: Robert Brown
• 金额: $ 1.1万
• 依托单位: American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-06-15 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1743792&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Symposium; Thermal; Deconstruction; Biomass

This award is to support a one-day mini-symposium on November 1, 2017, which will be held in conjunction with the AIChE Annual Meeting in Minneapolis, MN. The objective of this mini-symposium is to create a unique environment to allow the interactions of prominent researchers who work in the field of thermal deconstruction of biomass materials for producing novel biorenewable fuels. This mini-symposium will feature three sessions of invited speakers and a poster reception, featuring relevant research of graduate students. The three oral sessions, each consisting of talks by five invited speakers are: 1) Pathways to thermal deconstruction, 2) Fundamentals of thermal deconstruction, and 3) Upgrading products from thermal deconstruction. The funding will partially support the participation of the fifteen invited speakers and the young scientists presenting at the poster reception.Thermal deconstruction is an intriguing new approach to fractionating lignocellulose biomass into components suitable for upgrading into biobased products. The use of heat to fractionate and depolymerize plant biopolymers into solubilized carbohydrate and lignin-derived phenolic monomers has often been overlooked or even dismissed in the field of biofuels and biobased products. Its practitioners often self-segregate because they fail to recognize commonalities among the phenomena they study. Even less common are interactions and collaborations among those who thermally deconstruct biomass and those who depend upon deconstructed biomass as substrates for bioprocessing. To date, there has been no forum to bring together researchers who are pioneering thermal deconstruction as well as those who seek new sources of bioprocessing substrates. This mini-symposium will provide an excellent opportunity to bring experts together to address this important research field, which will have a significant impact on the development of the renewable energy technology.

该奖项旨在支持 2017 年 11 月 1 日举行的为期一天的小型研讨会，该研讨会将与在明尼苏达州明尼阿波利斯举行的 AIChE 年会同时举行。这次小型研讨会的目的是创造一个独特的环境，让在生物质材料热解构领域工作的著名研究人员进行互动，以生产新型生物可再生燃料。本次小型研讨会将设有三场特邀演讲嘉宾和一场海报招待会，以研究生的相关研究为特色。三个口头会议分别由五位受邀演讲者进行演讲，内容分别是：1) 热解构之路，2) 热解构基础知识，以及 3) 热解构产品升级。该资金将部分支持十五位受邀演讲者和在海报招待会上发言的年轻科学家的参与。热解构是一种有趣的新方法，可将木质纤维素生物质分馏成适合升级为生物基产品的成分。在生物燃料和生物基产品领域，利用热量将植物生物聚合物分馏和解聚成溶解的碳水化合物和木质素衍生的酚类单体常常被忽视甚至被忽视。它的实践者经常自我隔离，因为他们无法认识到他们所研究的现象之间的共性。更不常见的是热解构生物质的人和依赖解构生物质作为生物加工底物的人之间的相互作用和合作。迄今为止，还没有一个论坛可以将热解构先驱以及寻求生物加工基质新来源的研究人员聚集在一起。此次小型研讨会将为专家们提供一个绝佳的机会，共同探讨这一重要的研究领域，这将对可再生能源技术的发展产生重大影响。