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Challenges Of Designing And Operating A Pilot Scale Short Residence Time Continuous Hydrothermal Flash Hydrolysis Reactor For High Slurry Load Biomass Processing, Mason James Martin
Challenges Of Designing And Operating A Pilot Scale Short Residence Time Continuous Hydrothermal Flash Hydrolysis Reactor For High Slurry Load Biomass Processing, Mason James Martin
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Increasing demand for renewable energy, fuels, and bioproducts has resulted in a push for increasingly efficient and economically favorable biomass pretreatment methods. Flash Hydrolysis, (FH) a promising biomass pretreatment method, has been extensively studied at a laboratory scale. FH employs a continuous subcritical hydrothermal process capable of fractionating microalgae for lipid and protein recovery. FH is unique in that the residence time is very short (~ 10 s). Maintaining this residence time was key in designing a scaled pilot flash hydrolyzing unit (FHU). We have developed a one of its kind pilot FHU capable of increasing the processing output of …