2014 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: CO Hydrogenation II

We are seeking contributions (both experimental and theoretical) on all aspects of CO hydrogenation including: F-T synthesis (GTL, CTL and BTL); methanol and DME synthesis, production of olefins, and other chemicals from synthesis gas.

Chair

Andrew A. Peterson, Brown University

Co-Chair

Siris Laursen, University of Tennessee

Presentations

12:30 PM

(493a) Higher Alcohols Synthesis: Perspectives from Experiments and DFT Calculations
Burcin Temel, Niels C. Schjødt, Poul E. H. Nielsen

12:50 PM

(493b) C-C Bond Formation during Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis on Ru and Co Catalysts
David D. Hibbitts, Eric Dybeck, Thomas Lawlor, Matthew Neurock, Enrique Iglesia

01:10 PM

(493c) DFT Study of the Role of the Promoter in V-Promoted Rh Catalysts for CO Hydrogenation
Ruzica Todorovic, Randall J. Meyer

01:30 PM

(493d) DFT and Microkinetic Modeling Study of Gas- and Liquid-Phase Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis
Alireza Asiaee, Kenneth M. Benjamin

01:50 PM

(493e) Tuning of Higher Alcohol Selectivity and Productivity in CO Hydrogenation Reactions over K/MoS2 Catalysts Supported on Mesoporous Activated Carbon and MgΑl Oxide
Micaela Taborga Claure, Christopher W. Jones, Pradeep K. Agrawal, Song-Hai Chai, Sheng Dai, Faisal M. Alamgir

02:10 PM

(493f) A Systematic Study of Mn and Zr Oxide Promoters for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis Using Alumina Nanosphere-Supported Model Catalysts
Gregory R. Johnson, Sebastian Werner, Alexis T. Bell

02:30 PM

(493g) Long-Chain Aldehydes and Terminal Alcohols By Catalytic CO Hydrogenation
Yizhi Xiang, Norbert Kruse