Time：June 16th 2015， 8:30 AM
Location：Meeting Room of Basic Energy Building (Room 112)
Prof. George W. Huber
Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering,
University ofWisconsin-Madison
Introduction:
George W. Huber is the Harvey Spangler Professor of Chemical Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focus is on developing new catalytic processes for the production of renewable liquid fuels and chemicals.
GeorgeW. Huber is one of the most highly cited young scholars in the chemical sciences. His papers were cited over 3,200 times in 2014 and over 14,000 times in his career. Hehas authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications including three publications in Science. Patents and technologies he has helped develop have been licensed by three different companies. He has received several awards including the NSF CAREER award, the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award, fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and the outstanding young faculty award (2010) by the college of engineering at UMass-Amherst. He has been named one of the top 100 people in bioenergy by Biofuels Digest for the past 3 years. He is co-founder of Anellotech (www.anellotech.com) a biochemical company focused on commercializing, catalytic fast pyrolysis, a technology to produce renewable aromatics from biomass. George W. Huber serves on the editorial board of Energy and Environmental Science, ChemCatChem, Energy Technology, and The Catalyst Review. In June 2007, he chaired a NSF and DOE funded workshop entitled: Breaking the Chemical and Engineering Barriers to Lignocellulosic Biofuels (www.ecs.umass.edu/biofuels).
Abstract:
Concerns about global warming and national security, combined with the diminishing supply and increased cost of fossil fuels are causing our society to search for new sources of transportation fuels. Lignocellulosic biomass, the non-edible portion of biomass including trees, agricultural residues and fast growing energy crops, is available as a renewable feedstock today. In this presentation, Prof. Huber will discuss with us about the different approaches for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals that are being developed both inside and outside his research group.
The objective of the George W. Huber’s research group is to develop new catalytic processes and catalytic materials for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals from biomass, solar energy, and natural gas resources. During the past years, they used a wide range of modern chemical engineering tools to design and optimize these clean technologies including: heterogeneous catalysis, kinetic modeling, reaction engineering, spectroscopy, analytical chemistry, nanotechnology, catalyst synthesis, conceptual process design, and theoretical chemistry. In this presentation, Prof. George W. Huber will highlight some of the challenges and future opportunities for future process development and design of new catalytic approaches. He will show that all the same fuels and chemicals that are made from petroleum can be made from renewable biomass resources. He will also briefly discuss the potential of solar fuels (fuels made from sunlight, CO2 and water).
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