Organic Waste Conversion

The U.S. Department of Energy's Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) hosted its 2023 Project Peer Review on April 3‒7, 2023. The presentations from the Organic Waste Conversion session are available to view below. For more information, including a complete schedule, view the 2023 Project Peer Review Agenda.

Organic Waste Conversion
Title	Speaker	Organization
Technology Area Daily Intro	Beau Hoffman, Bri Farber, Katie Davis	BETO
Advanced Pretreatment/Anaerobic Digestion	Birgitte Ahring	Washington State University
Develop an efficient and cost-effective novel anaerobic digestion system producing high purity of methane from diverse waste biomass	Shulin Chen	Washington State University
Maximizing Bio-Renewable Energy from Wet Wastes (M-BREWW)	Lance Schideman	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Integrated biochemical and electrochemical technologies (IBET) to convert organic waste to biopower via North American research and educational partnerships	Lutgarde Raskin	University of Michigan
Biomethanation to Upgrade Biogas to Pipeline Grade Methane	Kevin Harrison	National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Upgrading Biogas through in situ Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Biomethane in Anaerobic Digesters	Zhen (Jason) He	Washington University at St. Louis
Renewable Natural Gas from Carboneaceous Wastes via Phase Transition CO2/O2 Sorbent Enhanced Chemical Looping Gasification	Fanxing Li	North Carolina State University
Catalytic Upgrading of Carbohydrates in Waste Streams to Hydrocarbons	Sunkyu Park	North Carolina State University
Waste-to-Energy Technical Assistance	Anelia Milbrandt	National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Waste-to-Energy: Optimized feedstock aggregation and blending at scale	Tim Seiple	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Analysis and Sustainability Interface - PNNL	Lesley Snowden-Swan	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Bench Scale HTL of Wet Wastes	Michael Thorson	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Denitrogenation of wet waste-derived biocrude to meet SAF specifications	Michael Thorson	Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
A Catalytic Process to Convert Municipal Solid Waste Components to Energy	Mike Timko	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Synergistic Thermo-Microbial-Electrochemical (T-MEC) Approach for Drop-In Fuel Production from Wet Waste	Z. Jason Ren	Princeton University
Novel and Viable Technologies for Converting Wet Organic Waste Streams to Higher Value Products	Yanna Liang	The Research Foundation of SUNY, University of Albany
Innovative Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) Production with Microbial Electrochemical Technology (MET)	Stephanie Lansing	University of Maryland
Electro-Enhanced Conversion of Wet Waste to Products Beyond Methane	Ken Reardon	Colorado State University