2016 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Reaction Engineering for Biomass Conversion

Crop residues, forest residues, woody biomass, and plant-based industrial processing woody biomass wastes provide a broad renewable feedstock base for developing energy efficient and environmentally sustainable processes for producing a wide range of chemicals, fuels, and bio-based materials. This session provides a forum for the application of Reaction Engineering in the biomass conversion area. Attempt will be made to publish a special issue on a journal for selected papers presented in this session along with other related sessions.

Chair

Fernando Resende, University of Washington

Co-Chair

Keith W. Hutchenson, DuPont Company

Presentations

08:30 AM

(496a) Characterization of TFA Regenerated Cellulose with a Two-Step Treatment to Understand the Impact of Cellulose Structure on Hydrolysis
Ximing Zhang

08:50 AM

(496b) The Role of Atmosphere, Solvents and Acids on the Production of 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural from Biomass Derived Fructose
Phillip Christopher, Glen Svenningsen, Charles Wyman, Rajeev Kumar

09:10 AM

(496c) Lignin Depolymerization into Aromatic Monomers over Acidic Mesoporous Silicates
Bala Subramaniam, Kakasaheb Nandiwale, Raghunath V. Chaudhari, Anand Ramanathan, Andrew Danby

09:30 AM

(496d) Characteristics and Activity of Steamed Zeolites for Butanol Upgrading to Higher Olefins
Mond Guo, Michel Gray, Vijayakumar Murugesan, Karthikeyan K. Ramasamy

09:50 AM

(496e) Tandem Catalysis in a New, Solid-Phase Route to Renewable Aromatic Chemicals from Biobased Furanics
Homer Genuino, Shanmugam Thiyagarajan, Jan van der Waal, Ed de Jong, Jacco van Haveren, Dan van Es, Bert Weckhuysen, Pieter Bruijnincx

10:30 AM

(496g) Reaction Pathways and Microkinetic Modeling of Levulinic Acid Hydrodeoxygenation over Sulfided NiMo/Al2O3
Miha Grilc, Blaž Likozar