Welcome to Join us!
Are you interested in bioenergy, biorefinery, ionic liquids, ScCO2, wood chemistry, and green chemistry? If yes, please join us and share all of these knowledge with Prof. Argyropoulos from 12 Oct. to 16 Oct. 2009. Do feel free to drop me email at haibo.xie@dcu.ie or exit 6230 if you want to join us!
Prof. Argyropoulos is a Professor of Chemistry at North Carolina State
University with the Department of Forest Biomaterials and a Finland
Distinguished Professor of Chemistry with the Dept of Chemistry at the University
of Helsinki. The work of his group focuses
on the organic chemistry of wood components and the development of new
chemistry for transforming the carbon present in our trees toward producing
valuable chemicals, materials and energy. Dr. Argyropoulos received his Ph.D.
in Organic Chemistry from
Prof. Argyropoulos is a Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Chemistry. In addition to being a member to a number of professional societies (ACS, TAPPI, PAPTAC), Dr. Argyropoulos serves the editorial boards of five scientific journals as well the board of the International Lignin Institute and a number of International Scientific committees. He has also served as the Chairman and Secretary of the Cellulose and Renewable Materials of the American Chemical Society.
The efforts of his research group have been disseminated in excess of 150 scientific papers, nearly two hundred scientific conference and numerous invited presentations. Prof. Argyropoulos has edited three books on the subjects of Characterisation, Oxidation of Lignocellulosic materials as well as Materials Chemicals & Energy from Forest Biomass.
Recent research in his group emerges from a significant finding that wood can be dissolved in Ionic Liquids, allowing for the creation of a variety of novel processing platforms for producing new materials, chemicals and energy.
Schedule for Prof. Dimitris Argyropoulos’
Visit to Dublin City University
(2009-10-11---------2009-10-17)
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Oct. 11 |
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Morning (9:30—12:30) |
Noon |
Afternoon (14:30—17:00) |
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Oct. 12 |
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Lunch |
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Oct. 13 |
Brief introduction of 31P NMR with Wood chemistry and to the postgraduate students |
Lunch |
Meet with postgraduate students |
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Oct. 14 |
Discuss the SFI grant application, (Ionic liquids, Supercritical ScCO2) |
Lunch |
Seminar Presentation: Opportunities and Challenge for Ionic Liquids for Forest Biorefinery |
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Oct. 15 |
Talk with group member about the ScCO2 and green chemistry |
Lunch |
Talk with group member about the biorefinery |
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Oct. 16 |
optional |
Lunch |
optional |
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Oct. 17 |
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(17th Sep. 2009)
Success for 2009 EPA Doctoral Scholarship in bioenergy development with ionic liquids!
Bioethanol is a renewable transport fuel with the potential to solve problems related to climate change, energy security and declining farm incomes. For bioproduction of ethanol, biomass, principally cellulose, may ultimately be hydrolyzed to glucose for fermentation.
Ionic liquids, a new class of cellulose and lignocellulose-dissolving solvents, and novel reaction media for biocatalysis are potential solvents for in situ enzymatic saccharification of cellulose to glucose.
We have previously reported the design of biodegradable and low toxicity ionic liquids for chemical synthesis and herein describe their application in biomass conversion.
We proposed to develop an economic and environmentally friendly technology of enzymatic conversion of cellulose and ultimately lignocellulosic materials into glucose in biodegradable ionic liquids for future bioethanol production.
(17th Sep. 2009)
Success for the
