Bioenergy

Dr. Anju Dahiya is lead professor of Biofuels and Waste to Energy at the University of Vermont, where her “Biomass to Biofuels” program,developed with support from the US Department of Energy led to several other courses including “Waste to Energy,” “Nutrient RecoverySolutions,” and “Food Waste to value” and brings together experts from the industries, farms, academia, and public and private organizations to provide hands-on experiential learning for working with all possible renewable bioenergy options: liquid biofuels (biodiesel including oil seeds; algae oil, ethanol, pyrolysis oil), solid biomass (lignocellulosic woody biomass and grass energy, municipal soil waste to fuels), and gaseous fuels (heat, biogas to power, RNG). She is also President and Senior Research Scientist at GSR Solutions LLC, dedicated to advanced biofuel and related by-products development. She has been leading several projects supported through Department of Energy, VT Sustainable Jobs Fund; Environmental Protection Agency; EPSCoR; NASA, National Science Foundation. Her biofuels-related work has been featured in television, radio, and print, and she is a frequently invited speaker at conferences, state programs, and workshops.

• Part I Bioenergy - Biomass to Biofuels: an overview 1. Introduction to Bioenergy2. Introduction to Biodiesel and Glossary of Terms3. Bioenergy – Biomass to Biofuels Terms & DefinitionsPart II Wood and Grass Biomass as Biofuels4. Wood BioEnergy5. Perennial Grass Biomass Production and Utilization6. Wood and Grass Energy Service Learning Projects and Case StudiesPart III Biomass to Liquid Biofuels7. Bioenergy Crops8. On-Farm Oil-Based Biodiesel Production9. Life Cycle Assessment: The Energy Return on Invested of Biodiesel10. Energy management during field production practices11. Straight Vegetable Oil as a Diesel Fuel?12. Cellulosic Ethanol—Biofuel Beyond Corn13. Bioheat14. Advanced biofuel from algae biomass15. Liquid Biofuels Service Learning Projects and Case StudiesPart IV Gaseous fuels and Bioelectricity16. Thermal Gasification of Biomass – a Primer17. Basics of Energy Production through Anaerobic Digestion of Livestock Manure18. Bioenergy and Anaerobic Digestion19. Gaseous fuels Service Learning Projects and Case StudiesPart V Conversion pathways for cost-effective biofuel production20. Biodiesel Production21. Transesterification22. Whole Algal Biomass in situ Transesterification to Fatty Acid Methyl Esters as Biofuel Feedstocks23. How Fuel Ethanol Is Made from Corn24. Approaches for evaluating biomass bioconversion for fuels and chemicals25. Reducing Enzyme Costs, Novel Combinations and Advantages of enzymes could lead to improved cost effective Biofuels Production26. Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass: Oil, Char, and Gas27. Sustainable Aviation Biofuels - A Development and Deployment Success Model28. Cutting Edge Biofuel Conversion Technologies to Integrate into Petroleum-based Infrastructure and Integrated Bio-Refineries29. Fuel conversion Service Learning Projects and Case Studies:Part VI Biofuels Economics, Sustainability, Environmental and Policy30. Biofuel Economics and Policy: The Renewable Fuel Standard the Blend Wall, and Future Uncertainties31. Economics of Ethanol and Biodiesel32. Fuel Quality Policy33. Renewable Oil-heat34. Biodiesel Emissions35. Health Effects Testing36. Biodiesel Sustainability Fact Sheet37. Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Bioenergy38. Integrated agro-ecological technology networks for food, bioenergy and bio-material productionPart VII Quizzes