Publications by authors named "Phillip Savage"

Article Synopsis
  • Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is a process that converts various biomass types into renewable bio-oil through reactions in hot, compressed water, producing additional gas and solid products.
  • The process retains a substantial amount of chemical energy, recovering around 70-80% of it in an oil that weighs only 20-50% of the original biomass, though the bio-oil often requires further upgrading to be usable as fuel.
  • HTL can also convert different plastics into oil, achieving high yields with certain types while being less effective with others, indicating its potential for recycling and valorizing post-consumer plastic waste.
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Leclercia adecarboxylata and Pseudomonas oryzihabitans are two bacteria rarely seen in human infections. We present an unusual case of a patient who developed a localized infection with these bacteria after repair of a ruptured Achilles tendon. We also present a review of the literature regarding infection with these bacteria within the lower extremity.

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Here, we describe steps for performing hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) experiments and developing component additivity models that predict oil yields from HTL of mixtures with biomass and plastics. Such models could be developed for predicting outcomes from any thermochemical valorization process (e.g.

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Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of starch, cellulose, pectin, and chitin with Pd/C, Co-Mo/γ-AlO, and zeolite was investigated at 320 °C for 30 min. Using Co-Mo/γ-AlO at 5 wt% loading led to the highest biocrude yields from starch (25 wt%) and cellulose (23 wt%). The yields from cellulose are more than twice those from noncatalytic HTL (11 wt%).

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We produced oils via hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) of binary mixtures of biomass components (e.g., lignin, cellulose, starch) with different plastics and binary mixtures of plastics themselves.

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We conducted Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of simulated food waste under different reaction conditions (180 to 220 °C, 15 and 30 min), with the aim of recovering both fatty acids from the hydrochar and nutrients from the aqueous-phase products. HTC of the simulated food waste produced hydrochar that retained up to 78% of the original fatty acids. These retained fatty acids were extracted from the hydrochar using ethanol, a food-grade solvent, and gave a net recovery of fatty acid of ∼ 50%.

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