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Team members and project roles |
Kiln Design and Pyrolysis Modeling: |
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Al Center: kiln design and pyrolysis processing to create desired outputs for butanol. |
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Darian Dimoff: pyrolysis modeling and kiln design. |
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Betta Fisher: pyrolysis and combustion modeling. |
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Fred Gouldin: pyrolysis modeling and kiln design. |
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Shaka Shabangu: pyrolysis modeling and kiln design. |
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Josh Velson: pyrolysis modeling and kiln design. |
Pyrolysis Gas to Butanol Conversion: Angenant Lab |
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Lars Angenent: Hollow fiber butanol reactor design, optimization of butanol production for both a research system and field-operational unit in Kenya. |
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Alex Esche: Optimization of hollow-fiber reactors for liquid fuel production from syngas, field reactor design for operational unit in Kenya. |
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Hanno Richter: Optimizing environmental conditions for conversion of butyrate into butanol by anaerobic bacteria in the reactor. |
Economic Impacts, Feasability and Sustainability Analysis |
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Julia Berazneva: Baseline data on household structure, economic characteristics, and labor allocation. Modeling for economic impacts of adoption and scaling-up. |
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David Lee: Baseline data on household structure, economic characteristics, and labor allocation. Modeling for economic impacts of adoption and scaling-up. |
![Photo of Frank Place, ICRAF](village_pyrolysis_images/Frank_Place_small.jpg) |
Frank Place: Baseline data on household structure, economic characteristics, and labor allocation. Modeling for economic impacts of adoption and scaling-up. |
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Dominic Woolf: modeling of feedstock, emissions and environmental impacts of adoption and scaling-up. |
Biomass Assessment, Biochar Characterization and Soil Impacts: Lehmann Lab |
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Akio Enders : characterization of biomass feedstocks and biochar in response to pyrolysis temperatures, lab and equipment design support. |
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David Guerena: analyzing soil fertility impacts of biochar application at field and watershed scale in agricultural landscapes. |
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Kelly Hanley: characterization of biochar, lab support, administrative support. |
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Johannes Lehmann: modeling of environmental impacts of adoption and scaling-up, biochar characterization, soil impacts of biochar, and project coordination. |
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Dorisel Torres: feedstock biomass assessment in landscapes and communities, modeling of environmental impacts. |
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Steve Vanek: mechanisms of biochar impact at the root-soil scale, project coordination and administration, website. |