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 Recovery Solutions,” 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 Bioenergy 2. Introduction to Biodiesel and Glossary of Terms 3. Bioenergy – Biomass to Biofuels Terms & Definitions

Part II Wood and Grass Biomass as Biofuels 4. Wood BioEnergy 5. Perennial Grass Biomass Production and Utilization 6. Wood and Grass Energy Service Learning Projects and Case Studies

Part III Biomass to Liquid Biofuels 7. Bioenergy Crops 8. On-Farm Oil-Based Biodiesel Production 9. Life Cycle Assessment: The Energy Return on Invested of Biodiesel 10. Energy management during field production practices 11. Straight Vegetable Oil as a Diesel Fuel? 12. Cellulosic Ethanol—Biofuel Beyond Corn 13. Bioheat 14. Advanced biofuel from algae biomass 15. Liquid Biofuels Service Learning Projects and Case Studies

Part IV Gaseous fuels and Bioelectricity 16. Thermal Gasification of Biomass – a Primer 17. Basics of Energy Production through Anaerobic Digestion of Livestock Manure 18. Bioenergy and Anaerobic Digestion 19. Gaseous fuels Service Learning Projects and Case Studies

Part V Conversion pathways for cost-effective biofuel production 20. Biodiesel Production 21. Transesterification 22. Whole Algal Biomass in situ Transesterification to Fatty Acid Methyl Esters as Biofuel Feedstocks 23. How Fuel Ethanol Is Made from Corn 24. Approaches for evaluating biomass bioconversion for fuels and chemicals 25. Reducing Enzyme Costs, Novel Combinations and Advantages of enzymes could lead to improved cost effective Biofuels Production 26. Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass: Oil, Char, and Gas 27. Sustainable Aviation Biofuels - A Development and Deployment Success Model 28. Cutting Edge Biofuel Conversion Technologies to Integrate into Petroleum-based Infrastructure and Integrated Bio-Refineries 29. Fuel conversion Service Learning Projects and Case Studies:

Part VI Biofuels Economics, Sustainability, Environmental and Policy 30. Biofuel Economics and Policy: The Renewable Fuel Standard the Blend Wall, and Future Uncertainties 31. Economics of Ethanol and Biodiesel 32. Fuel Quality Policy 33. Renewable Oil-heat 34. Biodiesel Emissions 35. Health Effects Testing 36. Biodiesel Sustainability Fact Sheet 37. Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Bioenergy 38. Integrated agro-ecological technology networks for food, bioenergy and bio-material production

Part VII Quizzes