Editors
| FRANCO BERRUTI, The University of Western Ontario |
| HUGO DE LASA, The University of Western Ontario |
| CEDRIC BRIENS, The University of Western Ontario |
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Current Volume: Volume 6 (2008)
Reviews
Desulfurization of FCC Gasoline: Novel Catalytic Processes with Zeolites
Lisette Jaimes, Gabriela M. Tonetto, María Lujan Ferreira, and Hugo de Lasa
Biomass Valorization for Fuel and Chemicals Production -- A Review
Cedric Briens, Jan Piskorz, and Franco Berruti
Articles
Hydrodynamic Models for Packed Beds with Low Tube-to-Particle Diameter Ratio
Carlos O. Castillo-Araiza and Felipe Lopez-Isunza
SFGP 2007 - Investigation of a Novel Principle of Chemical Grafting for Modification of Cellulose Fibers
Sophie Berlioz, Camelia Stinga, Jean Condoret, and Daniel Samain
SGGP 2007 - Understanding and Modelling of Crystallization Mechanisms by In-Situ Analytical Technologies Monitoring
Manuel Henry, François E. Puel, Philippe D. Perrichon, Caroline Wisniewski, and Gilles Fevotte
Coupling between Mass Transfer and Chemical Reactions during the Absorption of CO2 in a NaHCO3-Na2CO3 Brine : Experimental and Theoretical Study
Christophe E. Wylock, Pierre Colinet, Thierry Cartage, and Benoît Haut
Synthesis, Characterization and Kinetic Evaluation of Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles for the H2O2 Catalytic Decomposition
Manuel D. Delgado Vigil, Francisco Paraguay Delgado, Virginia Collins Martínez, and Alejandro López Ortiz
Three Phase Biofilter Model for the Removal of Styrene through the Microbial Route
Chhaya Das, Ranjana Chowdhury, and Pinaki Bhattacharya
SFGP 2007 - Pyrolysis of Supercritical Endothermic Fuel: Evaluation for Active Cooling Instrumentation
Nicolas Gascoin, Philippe Gillard, Stephane Bernard, Emeric Daniau, and Marc Bouchez
Biodegradation of High Phenol Concentration in a Membrane Bioreactor
Benoît Marrot, Adrian Barrios-Martinez, Philippe Moulin, and Nicolas Roche
SFGP 2007 - Microbial Growth onto Filter Media Used in Air Treatment Devices
Jean Chrsitophe Bonnevie Perrier, Laurence Le Coq, Yves Andrès, and Pierre Le Cloirec
Cadmium Biosorption on Vegetal Biomass
Zineb Salem and Khedidja Allia
Modelling Three-Phase Fluidized Bed Bioreactor for Wastewater Treatment
Leila Boumehdi Toumi, Maamar Fedailaine, and Khedidja Allia
Hydrogen Production from Ethanol Steam Reforming: Fixed Bed Reactor Design
Pablo Giunta, Norma Amadeo, and Miguel Laborde
SFGP 2007 - An Analysis of the Mass Transfer in a Non-Dispersive Solvent Extraction Closed System
Zaher Albaraka, Dominique Trebouet, Marlene Tuna, Jose Miguel Loureiro, and Michel Burgard
Conceptual Design and Preliminary Hydrodynamic Study of an Agro Biomass Bench Gasification Fluidized Bed Reactor
Anastasia Zabaniotou, Vasiliki Skoulou, George Koufodimos, and Zissis Samaras
Effect of Carbon Coating of TiO2/Fe3O4 Particles on Their Photocatalytic Activity
Tarek A. Gad Allah, Shigeru Kato, Shigeo Satokawa, and Toshinori Kojima
Experimental Study of the Reforming of Methane with Carbon Dioxide over Coal Char
Yanbing Li, Rui Xiao, Baosheng Jin, and Huiyan Zhang
Prediction of the Viscosity of Vacuum Gas Oil-Low Density Polyethylene Blends under Varying Shear Rates, Concentrations and Temperatures
Andrew Omoniyi Odjo, Antonio Marcilla-Gomis, Rosa N. Martinez, Amparo Gomez-Siurana, Juan Carlos Garcia-Quesada, Deseada Berenguer Muñoz, and Angela N Garcia-Cortes
SFGP 2007 - Modelling Kraft Cooking of Wood Species Mixtures
Gérard F. Mortha and Sandeep Jain
Conceptual Analysis of a Cyclic Water Gas Shift Reactor
Peter Heidebrecht, Christoph Hertel, and Kai Sundmacher
Optimization of Continuously Stirred Tank Bioreactor Design for Cost Minimization: Effect of Microbial Species and Operating Conditions
Erin E. Powell and Gordon A. Hill
SFGP 2007 - The Effects of Sludge Digester Biogas Recovery on WWTP Ecological Impacts and Exergetic Balance
Mehdi Belhani, Marie-Noëlle Pons, and Dominique Alonso
A Direct Electrode-Driven Immobilized Catalase for Biocatalysis of Peroxides
Huihong Liu, Xue-Ling Huang, and Qi-Hui Wang
Dynamic Behaviour of a Continuous Heat Exchanger/Reactor after Flow Failure
Wassila Benaissa, Sebastien Elgue, Nadine Gabas, Michel Cabassud, Douglas Carson, and Michel Demissy
SFGP 2007 - Ultrafine Aerosol Generation from Free Falling Nanopowders: Experiments and Numerical Modelling
Nelson Ibaseta, Eric Climent, and Béatrice Biscans
Characterisation of Isolated Mixing Regions in a Stirred Vessel
Mohamed Nabil Noui-Mehidi, Naoto Ohmura, Jie Wu, Bon Van Nguyen, Nami Nishioka, and Teiji Takigawa
Influence of Manufacturing Parameters on MEA and PEMFC Performance
Aránzazu Barrio, Javier Parrondo, Jose Ignacio Lombraña, Maria Uresandi, and Federico Mijangos
SFGP 2007 -- A New Concept for the Abatement of Volatile Organic Compounds by a Two-Stage Process Combining Non-Thermal Plasma Treatment and Filtration
Stephanie Ognier, Joseph Youssef, Simeon Cavadias, and Jacques Amouroux
Spatiotemporal Compound Wavelet Matrix Framework for Multiscale/Multiphysics Reactor Simulation: Case Study of a Heterogeneous Reaction/Diffusion System
Sudib K. Mishra, Krishna Muralidharan, S. Pannala, Srdjan Simunovic, C. Stuart Daw, Phani Nukala, Rodney Fox, Pierre A. Deymier, and George N. Frantziskonis
Optimization of Vapor Phase Pyridine Synthesis Hindered by Rapid Catalyst Deactivation
Suresh Kumar Reddy Kuppi Reddy, Inkollu Sreedhar, Kondapuram Vijaya Raghavan, Shivanand Janardan Kulkarni, and Machiraju Ramakrishna
Hydrogen Production by Ethanol Steam Reforming: Experimental Study of a Pd-Ag Membrane Reactor and Traditional Reactor Behaviour
Angelo Basile, Fausto Gallucci, Adolfo Iulianelli, Marcello De Falco, and Simona Liguori
A First Approach to CFD Simulation of Hydrodynamic Behaviour in a Conical Spouted Bed Contactor
Luis Díaz, Isabel Álava, Jon Makibar, Ruth Fernández, Fernando Cueva, Roberto Aguado, and Martin Olazar
Modeling and Comparison of Continuous and Semi-Continuous Processes for Simulating Decontamination of Liquid Nuclear Wastes by the Coprecipitation of Strontium Ions with Barium Sulphate
Vincent Pacary, Yves Barré, and Edouard Plasari
Characterization and Scale-Up of Cyanogen Bromide Chemical Activation of Sepharose CL-4B in a Stirred Tank Reactor to Purify the rHBsAg
Eutimio G. Fernández, José A. Montero, Rodolfo Valdés, Milagros G. Arce, Andrés B. Tamayo, Déborah Geada, Yenisley Medina, Malvina Benitez, Yarysel Guevara, William Ferro, Jorge L. López, Maylin La O, Yuirisleyi Aldama, Sigifredo A. Padilla, and Alejandro Figueroa
An Alternative Method for Designing Immobilized Column Reactors: An Application to L–Methionine Production
Amalendu Prakash Ranjan, Wen-Teng Wu, Chia-Hung Su, and James Gomes
A Thermodynamic Model of the Outputs of Gasification of Solid Waste
Jorge L. Hau, Ruby Ray, Rex B. Thorpe, and Adisa Azapagic
Equilibrium and Optimum: How to Kill Two Birds with One Stone?
Gregory Yablonsky and Ajay K. Ray
Variational Iteration Method for a Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion Process
Shu-Qiang Wang and Ji-Huan He
Numerical Analysis of a Two-Phase Flow and Mixing Process in a Stirred Tank
Si Huang, Abdulmajeed Mohamad, and K. Nandakumar
Experiment Investigations on the Performance of a Centrally Fuel Rich Swirl Coal Combustion Burner: Influence of Primary Air Ratio
Zhichao Chen, Zhengqi Li, Jianping Jing, Hongda Wei, Lizhe Chen, Shaohua Wu, and Yang Yao
Modelling of the Transient Behaviour of a Membrane-Attached Biofilm Reactor under Successive Pulses of a Synthetic Wastewater Substrate
Margarita Mercedes González-Brambila and Felipe Lopez-Isunza
Studies on the Fluidized Bed Electrode
Siva Kumar, Thilakavathi Ramamurthy, Bala Subramanian, and Ahmed Basha
Effect of the Shape of the Baffles on the Hydrodynamics of a Fluidized Bed
Srinivasa Rao Venkata Naga Kaza
Using the Kalman Filtering for the Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) in the Nonlinear Dynamic Processes
Yahya Chetouani
Effect of Various Parameters on the Solids Holdup in a Liquid-Solid Circulating Fluidized Bed
Natarajan Palani, Velraj Ramalingam, and Seeniraj R.V.
Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Natural Convection Heat Transfer in Horizontal Elliptic Annuli
Ramadan Y. Sakr, Nabil S. Berbish, Ali A. Abd-Aziz, and Abdalla Said Hanafi
Experimental Investigations on the Effect of the Tracer Location on Mixing in a Spout-Fluid Bed
Yong Zhang, Baosheng Jin, and Wenqi Zhong
Analysis of the Behaviour of Different Mixed Oxides in the Treatment of Cl-VOC Containing Gas Streams
Beatriz de Rivas, Rubén López-Fonseca, Miguel A. Gutierrez-Ortiz, and Jose I. Gutiérrez-Ortiz
Modeling of the Anode Flow Fields in DMFCs
Ugo A. Icardi, Stefania Specchia, Guido Saracco, and Vito Specchia
SFGP 2007 - An Adsorption and Photocatalysis Study of Ethyl Hexanoate
Emmanuel Gauthier, Pierre-Xavier Thivel, Françoise Delpech, Jean-Claude Roux, and Patrick Ozil
CFD Simulation of a Methane Steam Reforming Reactor
Mohammad Taghi Sadeghi and Mazaher Molaei
Thermodynamic Analysis for the Production of Hydrogen through Sorption Enhanced Water Gas Shift (SEWGS)
Miguel Escobedo Bretado, Manuel D. Delgado Vigil, Virginia H. Collins Martinez, and Alejandro López Ortiz
Removal of Inclusions from Molten Aluminium by Flotation in a Stirred Reactor: A Mathematical Model and a Computer Simulation
Olivier Mirgaux, Denis Ablitzer, Emmanuel Waz, and Jean-Pierre Bellot
Modeling and Development of a Microwave Heated Pilot Plant for the Production of SiC-Based Ceramic Matrix Composites
Beatrice Cioni and Andrea Lazzeri
CFD Simulation Gas-Liquid Flow in a Copper Converter with Bottom Air Injection
Jesus Gonzalez, Cesar Real, Manuel Palomar-Pardave, Luis Hoyos, Marco Gutierrez, and Raul Miranda
Influence of Hydrodynamic Models on Dynamic Response of the Fluidized Bed Polyethylene Reactor
Amin Sarvaramini, Navid Mostoufi, and Rahmat Sotudeh-Gharebagh
SFGP 2007 - Two-Step Process of Thermo-Chemical Conversion of Wood Waste Contaminated by Aminoplast Resins
Pierre Girods, Yann Rogaume, Anthony Dufour, Caroline Rogaume, and André Zoulalian
Film and Pore Diffusion Effects in Catalytic Vapor Phase Alkylation of Aniline
Satyavathi Bankupalli, Viswanath Kotra, Vijaya Lakshmi Cheedipudi, and Venkateshwar S
Hydrodynamically-Enhanced Light Intensity Distribution in an Externally-Irradiated Novel Aerated Photoreactor: CFD Simulation and Experimental Studies
Francisco J. Trujillo, Ivy A-L Lee, Chen-Han Hsu, Tomasz Safinski, and Adesoji A. Adesina
Electromigration of Co-Ions and Counter-Ions through Cation Exchange Membranes
Maria Uresandi, Javier Parrondo, and Federico Mijangos
CFD Simulation of Gas-Liquid Flows in a Reactor Stirred by Dual Rushton Turbines
Gopal R. Kasat, Aniruddha B. Pandit, and V. V. Ranade
An Integral Equation Formulation for Solving Reaction-Diffusion-Convection Boundary-Value Problems
Francisco J. Valdes-Parada, A. Mauricio Sales-Cruz, Jesús Alberto Ochoa-Tapia, and Jose Alvarez-Ramirez
Nanoreactors for Nanostructured Materials
Ramdas B. Khomane and Bhaskar D. Kulkarni
Estimation of a Reduced Model of the BSM1 Activated Sludge Wastewater Treatment Plant
Ouadiaa Barrou, Asma Karama, E. K. Lakhal, Olivier Bernard, Marie-Noelle Pons, and Jean-Pierre Corriou
Miniaturized Methanol Reformer for Fuel Cell Powered Mobile Applications
John C. Telotte, Jesse Kern, and Srinivas Palanki
Conversion of α-Zein to an Angiotensin I-Converting Enzyme Inhibitor under the Supercritical Water Condition
Kiyotaka Hatakeda, Susumu Maruyama, Akira Suzuki, and Kunio Arai
Scale Up Parameter for Surface Aeration Systems
Achanta Ramakrishna Rao and Kumar Bimlesh
Biosorption of Acid Blue 5 by Biomass Derived from Eichhornia crassipes: Batch and Column Studies
Ramamoorthy Ramasamy, Renganathan Sahadevan, Velan Manikam, Dharmendira Kumar Mahendradas, and Raajenthiren Muniswamy
Synthesis and Characterization of Ordered Mesoporous Carbon/Silica Hybrid Thin Films
Xiaoxian Wang, Tiehu Li, Qilang Lin, Dawei Wang, and Tingkai Zhao
Kinetic Study of Advanced Oxidation of Eosin Dye by Fenton's Reagent
Phalguni Banerjee, Sunando DasGupta, and Sirshendu De
Advanced Concepts for the Kinetic Modeling of Fatty Acid Methyl Esters Hydrogenation
Maria Ines Cabrera and Ricardo J. Grau
Steady State Model for Heat Transfer in a Packed Bed Reactor of Elliptic Cylindrical Shape
Laércio G. Oliveira, Ramdayal Swarnakar, and Antonio G. B. de Lima
Prediction of the Heat Transfer Coefficient in a Bubble Column Using an Artificial Neural Network
Adel A. Al-Hemiri and Nada S. Ahmedzeki
Comparison and Validation of Plug and Boundary Layer Flow Models of Monolithic Reactors: Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane on Rh Coated Monoliths
Ataallah Sari, Aliakbar Safekordi, and Farhad A. Farhadpour
Modeling of Gas Hydrate Formation in a High Pressure Reactor
Ajay Mandal and Sukumar Laik
Evaluation of the Performance of a Three-Phase Fluidized Bed Reactor with Immobilized Yeast Cells for the Biotechnological Production of Xylitol
Boutros F. Sarrouh and Silvio Silvério da Silva
Prediction of Conversion Yield in Circulating Fluidised Bed Combustors Using a Two-Dimensional Population Balance
Cristiano Nicolella and Federica Pratola
Conference Presentations
Reforming of Diesel Fuel in a Micro Reactor
Janina Thormann, Peter Pfeifer, Ulrich Kunz, and Klaus Schubert
Photoreactor Modeling: Applications to Advanced Oxidation Processes
Orlando M. Alfano and Alberto E. Cassano