Publications, Activities, and Awards

  • A comparative techno-economic assessment of fast pyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, and intermediate pyrolysis of municipal solid waste for liquid transportation fuels production
  • An Integrated GIS-based framework for optimal siting of biorefineries
  • Artificial neural network model for predicting pressure drop in pipeline hydro transportation of agricultural residues.
  • Assessment of biomass resource in China and Canada and the potential for bilateral biomass trade for co-firing
  • Biobattery concept: Decentralized production of fuel from forest biomass, agriculture residue and municipal solid waste
  • Comparison of vertical hydro-transport of lignocellulosic biomass with conventional solids
  • Comparison of wheat straw and corn stover slurry slow in vertical pipes
  • Decentralized use of forest biomass, agricultural residue, and municipal solid waste through the biobattery concept
  • Effect of particle size and concentration on the frictional behaviour of vertical upward flows of wheat straw slurries
  • Experimental investigation of agricultural residue biomass-water slurry flows in inclined and vertical pipelines
  • Experimental investigation of terminal settling velocity of biomass particles in Newtonian fluid.
  • Frictional behaviour of wheat straw-water suspensions in vertical upward flows
  • Hydro-transport of lignocellulosic biomass through inclined pipelines.
  • Hydrothermal liquefaction of pipelined biomass for fuel production
  • Intermediate Pyrolysis of Boreal Forest Residues for Production of Biofuels.
  • Optimal siting of municipal solid waste-to-energy conversion facilities using a GIS-based framework.
  • Prediction of the frictional behaviour for pipeline hydro transportation of agricultural residue using a neural network model
  • Raw biomass slurry flow in an inclined pipeline for its transport over a long distance to a biorefinery
  • Scale up study on pipeline hydro-transportation of agricultural and forestry residues
  • Techno-economic assessment of introducing intermediate pyrolysis in small community landfills across Alberta
  • The development of an integrated GIS-based mixed-integer non-linear programming model for waste-to-energy systems in Western Canada. The 36th International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management.
  • Thermo-catalytic reforming of Alberta-based biomass feedstock to produce biofuels
  • Thermo-catalytic reforming of Canadian agricultural residues to produce biofuels