Assistant Professor
245 Beacon Street, Room 513
Telephone: 617-552-6153
Email: emma.brace@bc.edu
ORCID
Biofuels and bioproducts, bioseparations, techno-economic analysis, life cycle assessment, process engineering, engineering education
Emma Brace is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College. Her research in biofuels and bioproducts aims to propel bioproducts to market by combining experimental development of novel process engineering strategies with simulation and modeling approaches. Her current work focuses on assessing the potential of new processes to make biofuels and bioproducts using techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment methodologies. She is also dedicated to innovation in engineering education and introducing students to best practices for harvesting and converting natural resources and agricultural products into biofuels and bioproducts in ethical and sustainable ways.Â
Prior to joining md´«Ã½¹ú²ú¾ç College, Emma was a postdoctoral research associate at the Department of Energy Center for Advanced Bioenergy and Bioproducts Innovation at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her postdoctoral work focused on performing techno-economic analyses and life cycle assessments of new biorefinery designs. She earned her PhD at Purdue University in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, where her dissertation focused on gas-liquid separations designs for removing hydrogen sulfide from natural gas using soybean oil as a bio-solvent. Emma earned her MS in Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University and BS in Biological Systems Engineering with a minor in Chemistry at Kansas State University.
Brace, E.C.; Engelberth, A.S. Estimating a Target Price to Regenerate Bio-Oils Post Hydrogen Sulfide Removal. Biofuels, Bioproducts & Biorefining 2022, 16 (6), 1781-1793.
Mishra, C.; Novak, L.; Riley, C.; Okekeogbu, I.; Smith, G.; Â Brace, E.C.; Kerstiens, E.; Clase, K. Continuous Improvement of a Bioengineering CURE: Preparing Students for a Changing World. Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education 2022, 50 (5), 510-518.
Bhagwat, S.S.; Li, Y.; Cortés-Peña, Y.R.; Brace, E.C.; Martin, T.A.; Zhao, H.; Guest, J.S. Sustainable Production of Acrylic Acid via 3-Hydroxypropionic Acid from Lignocellulosic Biomass. ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2021, 9 (49), 16659-16669.
Brace, E.C.; Engelberth, A.S. Assessing Viability of Soybean Oils to Remove Hydrogen Sulfide from Natural Gas. ACS Sustain. Chem. Eng. 2020, 8 (25), 9377-9384. ÌýÌýÌý
Brace, E.C.; Engelberth, A.S. Enhancing Silymarin Fractionation Using the Conductor-like Screening Model for Real Solvents. J. Chromatogr. A 2017, 1487, 187–193.
Zhang, H.; Brace, E.C.; Engelberth, A.S. Selection of a Non-Aqueous Two-Phase Solvent System for Fractionation of Xylooligosaccharides Prebiotics Using the Conductor-like Screening Model for Real Solvents. J. Liq. Chromatogr. Relat. Technol. 2016, 39 (6), 666-673.