UD researcher on team that wins NSF grant to convert biomass to fuel

University of Delaware
Friday, September 11, 2009

10:31 a.m., Sept. 10, 2009----The University of Delaware will receive $400,000 over the next four years to conduct research on the conversion of biomass to fuels through the National Science Foundation's Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation (EFRI) program.

EFRI offers interdisciplinary teams of researchers the opportunity to embark on rapidly advancing frontiers of fundamental engineering research. This year's program funded 43 projects in two areas: BioSensing and BioActuation (BSBA) and Hydrocarbons from Biomass (HyBi).

Dion Vlachos, Elisabeth Inez Kelley Professor of Chemical Engineering at UD, is co-principal investigator on an EFRI-HyBi project led by the University of Minnesota that will investigate the conversion of biomass to fuels using molecular sieve catalysts and millisecond contact time reactors. Only eight HyBi proposals were funded.

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