As petroleum prices continue to increase, it is likely that biofuels will play an ever-increasing role in our energy future. The processing of biomass-derived feedstocks (including cellulosic, starch- and sugar-derived biomass, and vegetable fats) by catalytic cracking and hydrotreating is a promising alternative for the future to produce biofuels, and the existing infrastructure of petroleum r...

Machinery Technology, for KBR, in Houston, Texas. In his assignment, he is responsible in the preparation and auditing of specifications, equipment evaluation, engineering coordination, and testing and installation startup of rotating and special equipment. He has worked in various applications of rotating machinery in the petrochemical and refinery processes including ammonia, LNG, olefins, ca...

Although liquid products derived from the pyrolysis of biomass are promising for production petroleum-like hydrocarbon fuels, catalytic burden hydrodeoxygenation must be reduced to achieve feasible upgrading processes. Herein, mild hydrotreating an acid-rich oil (bio-oil) with unusually high total acid number (588 mg KOH/g bio-oil) was performed stabilize low-quality bio-oil. Ru-added TiO2-supp...

Thermal DeOxygenation (TDO) is a robust thermochemical conversion scheme to produce hydrocarbons from biomass feedstock. The process targets the carbohydrate fraction of yield broad mixture primarily aromatic within boiling point range 348–798 K with low oxygen content (<4 wt%). resulting materials are amenable traditional hydrotreating and distillation processes approximately 70% by mass in di...

Aqueous biphasic catalysis is a convenient approach to convert organic, partially soluble molecules in water. However, converting more hydrophobic substrates is much more challenging as their solubility in water is extremely low. During the past ten years, substantial progress has been made towards improving the contact between hydrophobic substrates and a hydrophilic transition-metal catalyst....

This paper argues that Information Technology (IT) needs to be demystified, through critical consciousness, for educators to focus on IT as a means to enhance learning. It goes on to define the technical, sociohistorical and political-ideological levels of IT and to identify four theoretical constructs: tutorial, machine-as-human, tool kit and catalyst. Pervading these constructs is the underst...