2013 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Catalytic Biomass Conversion to Chemicals II

Conversion of biomass to chemicals via catalytic reactions and processes

Chair

Friederike C. Jentoft, University of Oklahoma

Co-Chairs

Brent H. Shanks, Iowa State University
Jean-Philippe Tessonnier, Iowa State University

Presentations

12:30 PM

(473a) Selective Dehydration of Polyols to Commodity Chemicals
Michael Nolan, Brent H. Shanks, Umayangani Wanninayake, George Kraus

12:51 PM

(473b) Selective Oxidation of Guaiacol to Produce Organic Acid Over TS-1 With H2O2
Ji Su, Lisha Yang, Ying Liu, Hongfei Lin

01:12 PM

(473c) Phthalic Anhydride Production From Renewable Carbon Sources
Raul Lobo, Eyas Mahmoud

01:33 PM

(473d) Reaction Kinetics of the Diels-Alder Cycloaddition of Dimethylfuran and Ethylene for Renewable p-Xylene
Sara Green, C. Luke Williams, Chun-Chih Chang, Wei Fan, Paul J. Dauenhauer

01:54 PM

(473e) Ruthenium-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Levulinic Acid: Influence of the Support On Selectivity and Stability
Wenhao Luo, Upakul Deka, Andrew M. Beale, Ernst R.H. van Eck, Pieter C. A. Bruijnincx, Bert M. Weckhuysen

02:15 PM

(473f) Catalyst Design for the Integration of Heterogeneous Catalysis With Biocatalysis
Thomas J. Schwartz, Robert L. Johnson, Klaus Schmidt-Rohr, Nancy Da Silva, James A. Dumesic, Javier Cardenas

02:36 PM

(473g) Reactions of Aliphatic and Aromatic Oxygenates On Ruthenium
Cheng-chau Chiu, Alexander Genest, Armando Borgna, Notker Roesch