Great Umenweke | ��ɫ��Ƶ College of Arts & Sciences

Great Umenweke

Graduate Research Assistant

Research, Teaching, and Service.

Contact Information

Great.Umenweke@uky.edu

Research Interests

Biorefining
Heterogenous Catalysis
Green ��ɫ��Ƶ
Materials

Affiliations

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Center for Applied Energy Research

Selected Publications

Selected Publications:

Great C. Umenweke, Robert B. Pace, Mathis Metais, Olivier Heintz, Gilles Caboche, Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez. ‘Continuous conversion of tall oil over Ni-Cu/SAPO-11 to a sustainable aviation fuel blendstock with excellent seal swelling properties.’ Fuel 392 (2025) 134695 DOI:
Great C. Umenweke and Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez. 'Hydrocarbon Biofuels.' American Chemical Society, 2024. DOI:
Parker, J.; Santillan-Jimenez, E.; Harman-Ware, A. E.; Umenweke, G. C.; Heintz, O.; Caboche, G.; Crocker, M. 'Reductive Depolymerization of Lignin to Aromatic Compounds over Promoted Nickel Catalysts in Sub- and Supercritical Methanol.' ChemNanoMat, e202400222. DOI:
Great C. Umenweke, Jude Okolie, Robert B. Pace, Eduardo Santillan-Jimenez. 'Techno-economic and Life-cycle Analyses of Sustainable Aviation Fuel production via integrated catalytic deoxygenation and hydrothermal gasification.' Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023, 452, 2, 139215.
Mohit Saraf, Monika Roy…... Great Umenweke et al. 'Perspective from the 2022 cohort of the American Chemical Society Summer School on Green ��ɫ��Ƶ & Sustainable Energy.' ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. (2023).
Jude A. Okolie, Jorge Ivan Escobar, Great Umenweke, Waheed Khanday, Patrick U. Okoye (2022). 'Continuous biodiesel production: A review of advances in catalysis, microfluidic and cavitation reactors.' Fuel, 307, 121821.
Great Umenweke*, Zacchaeus Adesanya, Helen Onyeaka and Taghi Miri; 'Modular Biorefinery Simulation of Nesogordonia papaverifera by Fast Pyrolysis (FP): A focus on bio-oil enhancement.' Biomass Conv. Bioref. (2021)