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2018-01-01

Kumar, Mayank, Oyedun, Adetoyese Olajire, Kumar, Amit

Hydrothermal processing, a thermochemical approach, is an excellent method of converting energy-rich biomass into useful products. This approach offers the advantage of handling biomass with relatively high moisture content by precluding an energy-intensive pretreatment step. Hydrothermal...

Spring 2019

Kumar, Mayank

The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions footprint of Alberta’s oil sands industry is one of the industry’s most arduous environmental challenges. Alberta’s oil sands industry uses chemicals such as diluent to reduce the viscosity of bitumen to ease its transportation through pipelines. The oil sands...

2015-01-01

Verma, Aman, Raj, Ratan, Kumar, Mayank, Ghandehariun, Samane, Kumar, Amit

Electric vehicle charging by renewable energy can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This paper presents a data-intensive techno-economic model to estimate the cost of charging an electric vehicle with a battery capacity of 16 kWh for an average travel distance of 65 km from small-scale...

2017-01-01

Kumar, Mayank, Olagire Oyedun, Adetoyese, Kumar, Amit

This study explores the hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of wood chips to bio-crude followed by upgrading to diluents, which are used to transport bitumen through pipelines. In this study, we considered a 2000 dry t day-1 plant capacity with two scenarios. The first scenario uses hydrogen for...

2016-01-01

Ghatora, Sonia, Kumar, Mayank, Vaezi, Mahdi, Kumar, Amit, Bressler, David

Pipeline transport of biomass is an economically viable and technically feasible approach to replace conventional truck delivery approach and make the biomass-based energy industry more competitive with fossil fuel-based plants. A 25 m long and 50 mm diameter closed-circuit pipeline facility was...