R. Vance Morey

Professor Emeritus
rvmorey@umn.edu
Biomass for Electricity and Process Heat at Ethanol Plants
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Education

  • Ph.D.  - Agricultural Engineering. Purdue University. 1970.
  • B.S. - Agricultural Engineering. Michigan State University. 1967.

R.Vance Morey, Professor Emeritus

Areas of Interest

  • biomass for combined heat and power at ethanol plants
  • biomass densification
  • post-harvest handling, storage, and quality improvement of grains

Select Publications

  • Ruan, R., P.Chen, R. Hemmingsen, V. Morey, and D. Tiffany. 2008. Size matters: small distributed biomass energy production systems for economic viability. International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering 1(1):64-68.
  • Morey, R.V., D.L. Hatfield, R. Sears, D. Haak, D.G. Tiffany, and N. Kaliyan. 2009. Fuel properties of biomass feed streams at ethanol plants. Applied Engineering in Agriculture 25(1): 57-64.
  • Kaliyan, N. and R.V. Morey. 2009. Factors affecting strength and durability of densified biomass products. Biomass and Bioenergy 33(3): 337-359.
  • De Kam, M.J., R.V. Morey, and D.G. Tiffany. 2009. Integrating biomass to produce heat and power at ethanol plants. Applied Engineering in Agriculture 25(2): 227-244.
  • Tiffany, D.G., R.V. Morey, and M.J. De Kam. 2009. Economics of biomass gasification/combustion at fuel ethanol plants. Applied Engineering in Agriculture 25(3): 391-400.
  • Kaliyan, N., R. V. Morey, M. D. White, and A. Doering. 2009. Roll press briquetting and pelleting of corn stover and switchgrass. Transactions of the ASABE 52(2): 543-555.
  • Kaliyan, N. and R. V. Morey. 2009. Densification characteristics of corn stover and switchgrass. Transactions of the ASABE 52(3): 907-920.
  • De Kam, M.J., R.V. Morey, and D.G. Tiffany. 2009. Biomass integrated gasification combined cycle for heat and power at ethanol plants. Energy Conservation and Management 50: 1682-1690.
  • Kaliyan, N., and R. V. Morey. 2009. Constitutive model for densification of corn stover and switchgrass. Biosystems Engineering 104: 47-63.
  • Kaliyan, N., and R. V. Morey. 2009. Natural binders and solid bridge type binding mechanisms in briquettes and pellets made from corn stover and switchgrass. Bioresource Technology (in press).
  • Kaliyan, N., and R. V. Morey. 2009. Strategies to improve durability of switchgrass briquettes. Transactions of the ASABE 52(6): 1943-1953.
  • Kaliyan, N., and R. V. Morey. 2010. Densification characteristics of corncobs. Fuel Processing Technology 91: 559-565.
  • Morey, R. V., N. Kaliyan, D. G. Tiffany, and D. R. Schmidt. 2010. A corn stover supply logistics system. Applied Engineering in Agriculture 26(3): 455-461.
  • Kaliyan, N., R.V. Morey, and D.G. Tiffany. 2011. Reducing life cycle greenhouse gas emissions of corn ethanol by integrating biomass to produce heat and power at ethanol plants. Biomass and Bioenergy 35(3): 1103-1113.
  • Kaliyan, N., D.R. Schmidt, R.V. Morey, and D.G. Tiffany. 2012. Commercial scale tub grinding of corn stover and perennial grasses. Applied Engineering in Agriculture 28(1): 79-85.
  • Kaliyan, N., R.V. Morey, and D.R. Schmidt. 2013. Roll press compaction of corn stover and perennial grasses to increase bulk density. Biomass and Bioenergy 55: 322-330.
  • Zhang, H., R.V. Morey, and N. Kaliyan. 2013. Aspen plus simulation of biomass integrated gasification combined cycle systems at corn ethanol plants. Biomass and Bioenergy 56: 197-210.
  • Tiffany, D.G., W.F. Lee, V. Morey, and N. Kaliyan. 2013. Economic analysis of biomass torrefaction plants integrated with corn ethanol plants and coal-fired power plants. Advances in Energy Research 1(2): 127-146.
  • Chum H., Y. Zhang, J. Hill, D. Tiffany, R. Morey, A. Goss Eng, and Z. Haq. 2013. Understanding the evolution of environmental and energy performance of the US corn ethanol industry: evaluation of selected metrics. Biofpr DOI: 10.1002/bbb.1449.
  • Kaliyan, N., R.V. Morey, D.G. Tiffany, and W.F. Lee. 2014. Life cycle assessment of corn stover torrefaction plant integrated with a corn ethanol plant and a coal fired power plant. Biomass and Bioenergy 63: 92-100.
  • Morey, R.V., H. Zhang, N. Kaliyan, and M.V. Pham. 2014. Modelling of superheated steam drying for combined heat and power at a corn ethanol plant using Aspen Plus software. Biosystems Engineering 119: 80-88.
  • Zhang, H. and R.V. Morey. 2014. An unsteady-state two-phase kinetic model for corn stover fluidized bed steam gasification process. Fuel Processing Technology 124: 11-20.

External Affiliations

  • ASABE–American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers, Fellow
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • American Society for Engineering Education
  • Council for Agricultural Science and Technology