Environment-Enhancing Energy - Third Generation Biofuel

Zhang, Yuanhui

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Title

Environment-Enhancing Energy - Third Generation Biofuel

Author(s)

Zhang, Yuanhui

Issue Date

2010-01-21

Keyword(s)

• alternative liquid fuels
• sustainable energy

Abstract

Yuanhui Zhang - Professor UI Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering. Energy consumption and environment have been so far contradictory to each other and have difficulty in coexistence. Some extreme examples have been on the path of rapid development, and in many ways selfdestructive. How can we continue to improve human living conditions with limited energy sources? How can we protect our environment while sustaining our economy? How can we handle the magnitude and the multitude of these challenges? Are you optimistic, or pessimistic, about our future? In this presentation, Professor Zhang offers his perspectives, based on his own research, on the issues of energy and environment, and their implications to our economic development and sustainability. He conducts research in Environment-Enhancing Energy, which first converts organic solids in animal, human and food wastes into biocrude oil via a hydrothermal process (HTP); then grows fast-growing algae in the HTP wastewaters and sequesters carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Finally, the algae biomass is fed back to the HTP, as a sole feedstock or as an additive, to be converted into additional biocrude oil. This synergistic process is extremely advantageous because it Simultaneously produces energy and improves the environment by improving water quality, sequestering carbon dioxide, and, of no less importance, having the potential to meet the entire national fuel need.

Series/Report Name or Number

Sustainable Seminar Series

Type of Resource

• text
• still image

Language

en

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• https://youtu.be/LEaQMB5FLS8
• http://hdl.handle.net/2142/106704

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