BioCentury Research Farm

Thermochemical Processing Research Projects

Pyrolysis Process Development Unit

Project Investigators: Robert Brown
Researchers: Andrew Friend and Andrew Olthoff
Participating and/or Sponsoring Organizations: United States Department of Energy
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Steam/Oxygen Gasification of Biomass for Synthetic Fuels Production

Project Investigators: Robert Brown
Researchers: Karl Broer and Patrick J. Woolcock
Participating and/or Sponsoring Organizations: ConocoPhillips and United States Department of Energy
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Hot Gas Cleaning

Researchers: Lysle Whitmer
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Agro-ecosystem Approach to Sustainable Biofuels Production via the Pyrolysis-Biochar Platform

Project Investigators: Kenneth Moore, Robert Brown, Jill Euken, Raj Raman, Mark Hanna, Dermot Hayes, Keri Jacobs, Stuart Birrell, David Laird, Catherine Kling, and Charles Schwab
Funding: USDA-NIFA

Biomass Synthetic Gas to Liquid Fuels Validation

Project Investigators: Robert Brown
Funding: United States Department of Energy

A Systems Approach to Bio-oil Stabilization

Project Investigators: Robert Brown, Terry Meyer, Rodney Fox, Shankar Subramaniam, Brent Shanks, and Marjorie Rover
Funding: United States Department of Energy and ConocoPhillips