Our senior design project involves creating a data acquisition system and analyzing the temperature and oxygen profiles along the path of organic material inside the Biogenic Refinery from Biomass Controls. The Biogenic Refinery was initially designed to treat human waste in areas lacking centralized wastewater infrastructure and produces a hydrogen rich syngas and a solid biochar. The Golisano Institute for Sustainability is interested in analyzing the operation of the Biogenic Refinery using food waste as the organic material and what conditions will result in a high quality biochar product.

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Project Name

Thermochemical Conversion of Food Waste

Project Number

P19318

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project family (if relevant)

Start Term

2181

End Term

2185

Faculty Guide

Sarah Brownell

Primary Customer

Tom Trabold

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