Dr. Chen Luwei - BioEnergy Society of Singapore

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Catalyst De
evelopme
ent for Bio
omass Con
nversion to
o Fuels an
nd Chemiccals Drr. Chen Lu
uwei Insttitute of C
Chemical EEngineering Sciencess (ICES), A*star ‐‐‐ An introd
duction of research activities iin Heteroggeneous C
Catalysis, IC
CES Abstractt: Biomasss is a renew
wable resou
urce which can achievee carbon neeutrality. P
Production of energy and cheemicals from
m biomass iss of critical importancee in meetingg some of th
he challengees such as decreassing availab
bility of fosssil fuels an
nd increasin
ng global w
warming efffects. Prod
duction of energy and chemiccals from biomass app
pears as onee of the mo
ost promising, viable, long‐term solution
ns to our futture societyy. Thermo
ochemical ccatalytic rou
utes have rrecently deemonstrated
d that it iss entirely feeasible to convert biomass to t fuels and chemicals using hetterogeneou
us catalysts. Examples of these ous phase reforming (resulting iin green h
hydrogen), technologies include vapor and aqueo
catalyticc fast pyro
olysis, and other selective cataalytic transsformation of variouss biomass derivatives. Hetero
ogeneous Catalysis C
grroup in ICEES (Institutee of Chemiical and En
ngineering has been acctively involvved in the ccatalyst and
d process developmentt for fuels Sciencess, A*Star) h
and cheemicals prod
duction from
m biomass. In this preesentation, progress on
n bio‐oil and glycerol upgrading, hydrogeen and olefins production from bio
o‐ethanol w
will be discusssed. Biograph
hy: Dr Luwei CHEN receiived PhD from National U
University off Singapore (NUS) in 2000. She jjoined Institute of Chem
mical and En
ngineering SSciences of 003 and is ccurrently a sscientist and
d a team leaader in the Singaporee (ICES) in 20
heterogen
neous catalyssis program. Her researcch interests include devellopment of catalysts/materials forr renewable//alternative eenergy; carbon dioxide caapture and ns; and mech
hanistic studyy of the gas aadsorption and reaction on catalyst utilization
surfaces, u
using in situ ttechniques (XPS, UPS, TP
PR, Raman an
nd FTIR etc.).