Grant: Discovery Grants Program - Individual

There is a push, worldwide, to produce fuels and chemicals from renewable sources such as biomass. Thermochemical processes, which use heat to break up the molecules of biomass into fragments that recombine to form liquid fuels and chemicals, are the preferred methods since they are cost-effective and can process agricultural and forestry residues, thus avoiding competition with food. The general, long-term objective of this proposal is to develop better reactors for the thermal and catalytic cracking of solid feedstocks such as biomass and liquid feedstocks such as bio-oils and residual oils. The long term objectives are the better understanding of current reactors, their improvement through new technologies and the development of new reactors or reactor configurations.