/chbe/ en /chbe/2022/10/24/will-medlin-receives-500000-nsf-award-converting-biomass-renewable-fuels <span>Will Medlin receives $500,000 NSF award for converting biomass into renewable fuels</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2022-10-24T10:20:04-06:00" title="Monday, October 24, 2022 - 10:20">Mon, 10/24/2022 - 10:20</time> </span> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/chbe/taxonomy/term/325" hreflang="en">Medlin</a> <a href="/chbe/taxonomy/term/430" hreflang="en">brief</a> <a href="/chbe/taxonomy/term/419" hreflang="en">medlinbrief</a> </div> <a href="/chbe/susan-glairon">Susan Glairon</a> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-above"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div> <div class="imageMediaStyle large_image_style"> <img loading="lazy" src="/chbe/sites/default/files/styles/large_image_style/public/article-image/will_medlin_portrait-4_copy.png?itok=sf7EymF9" width="1500" height="1000" alt="Will Medlin with the Boulder Flatirons in the background"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-text d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>Professor&nbsp;<a href="/chbe/j-will-medlin" rel="nofollow">Will Medlin</a>, department chair of&nbsp;chemical and biological engineering, received a four-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation award&nbsp;to study new routes for converting biomass into renewable fuels and chemicals. The project, “Collaborative Research: ECO-CBET: Coupled Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Processes for an Environmentally Sustainable Lignin-first Biorefinery," involves&nbsp;a&nbsp;collaborative team of scientists from CU Boulder,&nbsp;the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of South Carolina&nbsp;and the ³Ô¹ÏÍø of North Carolina at Charlotte. The researchers, who include&nbsp;experts in biomass processing, novel catalysts, reaction modeling, machine learning&nbsp;and life cycle assessment, will study how lignin, a natural&nbsp;recalcitrant polymer, can be broken down into individual molecules&nbsp;and how these molecules are converted by catalysts into stable fuels and materials precursors.</p> <p>Medlin says the specific chemical route the team is studying involves a "so-called lignin first&nbsp;strategy,"&nbsp;&nbsp;in which lignin, one of the most potentially valuable but least utilized components of biomass, is dissolved and processed to useful chemical compounds.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div>Professor&nbsp;Will Medlin, department chair of&nbsp;chemical and biological engineering, received a four-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation award&nbsp;to study new routes for converting biomass into renewable fuels and chemicals.</div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Mon, 24 Oct 2022 16:20:04 +0000 Anonymous 3297 at /chbe