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
  • A review of Canadian wood conversion technologies for the production of fuels and chemicals
  • An Integrated GIS-based framework for optimal siting of biorefineries
  • Analyzing the techno-economic aspects of co-processing fast pyrolysis bio-oil with conventional vacuum gas oil for the production of liquid fuels.
  • 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 frictional behaviour and techno-economics of agricultural residue biomass in ascending and descending pipes
  • Comparison of maize stover and wheat straw slurry flow in vertical pipes
  • Comparison of vertical hydro-transport of lignocellulosic biomass with conventional solids
  • Decentralized use of forest biomass, agricultural residue, and municipal solid waste through the biobattery concept
  • Evaluation of particle size, shape and specific energy consumption during hammer milling of wheat straw and softwood residues.
  • 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.
  • Experimental study on two-phase (solid-liquid) flows of ground wheat straw in inclined pipes
  • 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.
  • Pelletization of Three Municipal Solid Waste Streams: Digestate, Source Separated Organics and Refuse Derived Fuel for Use in a Biorefinery
  • 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 of pipeline hydro-transportation of agricultural and forestry residues.
  • Scale up study on pipeline hydro-transportation of agricultural and forestry residues
  • Techno-economic assessment of co-processing of fast pyrolysis bio-oil with fossil fuel derived vacuum gas oil
  • Techno-economic assessment of introducing intermediate pyrolysis in small community landfills across Alberta
  • The development of a framework through the integration of a geographical information system and the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process for the selection of optimal sites for the location of municipal solid waste-to-value-added facilities
  • 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.
  • The development of empirical correlations to understand the frictional behavior of aqueous biomass slurry flows in vertical pipes
  • The effect of particle size and concentration on the frictional behavior of vertical upward flows of wheat straw aqueous slurries
  • Thermo-catalytic reforming of Alberta-based biomass feedstock to produce biofuels
  • Thermo-catalytic reforming of Canadian agricultural residues to produce biofuels
  • Two-phase (solid-liquid) flows of agricultural residue biomass in inclined pipes.