Mark Mba-Wright

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Research Papers                                                          

• Qi Dang, Mark Mba Wright, and Robert C. Brown Ultra-Low Carbon Emissions from Coal-Fired Power Plants through Bio-Oil Co-Firing and Biochar Sequestration Environmental Science and Technology, Article ASAP 2015 Nov;DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b03548
• B Li, L Ou, Q Dang, P Meyer, S Jones, R Brown, M Wright. Techno-economic and uncertainty analysis of in situ and ex situ fast pyrolysis for biofuel production Bioresource Technology. 2015 Nov; 49-56
• Mark M. Wright, Navid Seifkar, William H. Green, and Yuriy Román-Leshkov. Natural Gas and Cellulosic Biomass: A Clean Fuel Combination? Determining the Natural Gas Blending Wall in Biofuel Production. Environmental Science & Technology 2015 49 (13), 8183-8192
• G Liu, MM Wright, Q Zhao, RC Brown Catalytic fast pyrolysis of duckweed: Effects of pyrolysis parameters and optimization of aromatic production. 2015 March; Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis. 112 pp. 29-36
• L Ou, R Thilakaratne, RC Brown, MM Wright Techno-economic analysis of transportation fuels from defatted microalgae via hydrothermal liquefaction and hydroprocessing Biomass and Bioenergy 72, 45-54
• DSA Simakov, MM Wright, S Ahmed, EMA Mokheimer, Y Román-Leshkov Solar thermal catalytic reforming of natural gas: a review on chemistry, catalysis and system design Catalysis Science & Technology 5 (4), 1991-2016
• Thilakaratne R, Wright MM, Brown RC. A techno-economic analysis of microalgae remnant catalytic pyrolysis and upgrading to fuels. Fuel. 2014 Jul;128:104–112.
• Ou L., Thilakaratne R., Wright MM, Brown R. C. Techno-economic Analysis of Transportation Fuels from Defatted Microalgae via Hydrothermal Liquefaction and Hydroprocessing. Biomass and Bioenergy (2015) pp. 45-54 (Accepted – 2014)
• Brown TR, Wright MM. A Framework for Defining the Economic Feasibility of Cellulosic Biofuel Pathways. Biofuels (Accepted – 2014)
• Brown TR, Wright MM. Techno-economic impacts of shale gas on cellulosic biofuel pathways. Fuel. 2014;117(Part B):989–995.
• Dalluge DL, Daugaard T, Johnston P, Kuzhiyil N. Wright MM, Brown RC Continuous production of sugars from pyrolysis of acid-infused lignocellulosic biomass. Green Chemistry 2014;16:4144–4155.
• Daugaard T, Mutti LA, Wright MM., Componation P, Brown RC. Learning rates and their impacts on the optimal capacities and production costs of biorefineries. Biofuels, Bioproducts, and Biorefining 2014
• Zhang Y., Wright MM. Product Selection and Supply Chain Optimization for Fast Pyrolysis and Biorefinery System. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 2014, 53 (51), pp 19987-19999
• Wright, MM, Román-Leshkov, Y & Green, WH 2012, Investigating the techno-economic trade-offs of hydrogen source using a response surface model of drop-in biofuel production via bio-oil upgrading, Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining, vol. 6, no. 5, pp. 503–520.
• Brown T. R., Wright M. M., and Brown R. C. “Estimating profitability of two biochar production scenarios: slow pyrolysis vs fast pyrolysis” Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 2011 5 (1) pp 54
• Wright M. M., Daugaard D. E., Satrio J. A., and Brown R. C. “Techno-economic analysis of biomass fast pyrolysis to transportation fuels” (2010) Fuel 89 S2-S10
• Wright M. M., Daugaard D. E., Satrio J. A., and Brown R. C. “Techno-economic analysis of biomass fast pyrolysis to transportation fuels” (2010) NREL Report TP-6A20-46586
• Anex, R. P., Aden, A., Kazi, F. K., Fortman, J., Swanson, R. M., Wright, M. M., Satrio, J. A., Brown, R. C., Daugaard, D. E., Platon, A., Kothandaraman, G., Hsu, D. D. and Dutta, A. (2010). “Techno-economic Comparison of Biomass-to-Transportation Fuels Via Pyrolysis, Gasification, and Biochemical Pathways.” Fuel.
• Wright M. “Fast pyrolysis: next generation biomass gasoline and diesel production” Inform, June 2011 22 (6) pp. 329
• Wright, M. M., Brown, R. C. and Boateng, A. A. (2008). “Distributed processing of biomass to bio-oil for subsequent production of Fischer-Tropsch liquids.” Biofuels, Bioproducts, & Biorefining (Biofpr) 2(3): 229-238.
• Wright, M. and Brown, R. C. (2007). “Comparative economics of biorefineries based on the biochemical and thermochemical platforms.” Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining Journal 1: 49–56 (discussed by BBC.com:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6949861.stm).
• Wright, M. and Brown, R. (2007). “Establishing the optimal sizes of different kinds of biorefineries.” Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining 1(3).

Book Chapters/Reviews                                                   

• Brown, T. R., M. M. Wright, Y. Roman-Leshkov, R. C. Brown (2014) Techno-economic assessment of biorefineries, in Advances in Biorefineries: Biomass and Waste Supply Chain Exploitation, Waldron, K.W., Ed., Woodhead Publishing. (2014)
• Wright M. M. and Brown R. C. “Costs of Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass to Power and Liquid Fuels” Book Chapter in Thermochemical Processing of Biomass Edited by R. C. Brown, Wiley (2011)
• Brown R. C. and Wright M. M., “Capturing solar energy through biomass” Book Chapter in Principles of Sustainable Energy Edited by F. Kreith and J. F. Kreider, CRC Press (2011)

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