2006 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Chemical and Catalytic Conversions and Processes for Renewable Feedstocks

Explore advances in products and processes based on chemically- or catalytically-mediated conversion of renewable substrates. Favor contributions that demonstrate the sound application of core scientific and engineering principles.

Chair

Susan Stagg-Williams, University of Kansas

Co-Chair

Dennis Miller, Michigan State University

Presentations

03:15 PM

(687a) Transesterification of Poultry Lipids Using Mg-Al Hydrotalcite Derived Catalysts
Yijun Liu, Edgar Lotero, James G. Goodwin, David A. Bruce

03:35 PM

(687b) Preliminary Investigations of the Catalytic Deoxygenation of Fatty Acids
A. More, John R. Schlup, Keith Hohn

03:55 PM

(687c) The Effects of Temperature and Hydrogen on Glycerol Adsorption on Ruthenium Metal
Lars Peereboom, J. E. Jackson, Dennis Miller

04:15 PM

(687d) In-Situ X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Supported Transition Metal Catalysts for Hydrogenolysis of Sorbitol and Oxidation of Glycerol
William C. Ketchie, Erin P. Maris, Robert J. Davis

04:45 PM

(687e) Highly Selective Conversion of Glycerol to Propylene Glycol
Galen J. Suppes, Chuang-Wei Chiu, William R. Sutterlin, Lizanette Rivera Ramos

05:05 PM

(687f) A New Route to Improved Glucose Yields in Cellulose Hydrolysis
Haibo Zhao, Jamelyn Holladay, J. M. White, Wenchuan Wang, Z. C. Zhang

05:25 PM

(687g) Fundamentals of Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Liquid Fuels: Heat Transfer and Kinetics
Bo Zhang, Marc von Keitz, Kenneth Valentas