Multiphysics modeling and simulation of high-solids dilute-acid pretreatment of corn stover in a steam-explosion reactor

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 268, Issue , 2015, Pages 47-59

  Sitaraman, Hariswaran ^a   Kuhn, Erik M ^a   Nag, Ambarish ^a   Sprague, Michael A ^a   Tucker, Melvin P ^a   Stickel, Jonathan J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biofuels; Lignocellulosic biomass; Reaction diffusion equations; Spectral finite element method

Indexed keywords

BIOCONVERSION; BIOFUELS; BIOMASS; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; DIFFUSION IN LIQUIDS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

BIOCHEMICAL CONVERSION; DILUTE ACID PRETREATMENT; KINETIC RATE PARAMETERS; LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS; MULTI-PHYSICS MODELING; QUANTITATIVE AGREEMENT; REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS; SPECTRAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84921940882     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2015.01.020     Document Type: Article

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