Michael Modell
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
18 Papers
189 Citations
Michael Modell is an academic researcher from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Supercritical water oxidation & Sewage sludge treatment. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 18 publications.
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Papers
Interactions between catalytic hydrodesulfurization of thiophene and hydrodenitrogenation of pyridine
TL;DR: Pyridine hydrodenitrogenation (HDN) is more difficult than thiophene hydrodesulfurization (HDS), and there is a thermodynamic limitation on the first step of the HDN reaction mechanism which occurs, for example, at 5 to 11 bars, at temperatures above about 350°C as mentioned in this paper.
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Environmental assessment of supercritical water oxidation of sewage sludge
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied the environmental aspects of using supercritical water oxidation (SCWO) to treat sewage sludge using a life cycle assessment (LCA) methodology.
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Legendre transforms and their application in thermodynamics
TL;DR: In this article, a Legendre transform theory is developed to show the relationships among the common thermodynamic potential functions (that is, energy, enthalpy, and free energy) and extended to introduce other potential functions which are particularly convenient in certain applications.
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Direct energy recovery from primary and secondary sludges by supercritical water oxidation.
TL;DR: Capital and operating cost estimates are given for sewage sludge treatment, which are less costly than incineration, and the scenario of direct recovery of energy from sludges has inherent benefits compared to other gasification or liquefaction options.
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