2018 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Reaction Engineering for Biomass Conversion I

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

Heather Mayes, University of Michigan

Co-Chair

M.Toufiq Reza, Ohio University

Presentations

08:00 AM

(475a) Oxidation of Lignin-Rich Residue from Deacetylation, Mechanical Refining, and Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Lignocellulose
Jacob S. Kruger, David Brandner, Camille Amador, Gregg Beckham

08:21 AM

(475b) Origins of Char during Fast-Hydropyrolysis of Biomass to Fuels
Abhijit Talpade, Richard Caulkins, Lan Xu, Yuan Jiang, Taufik Ridha, Nathan S. Mosier, Hilkka Kenttamaa, Rakesh Agrawal, W. Nicholas Delgass, Fabio H. Ribeiro

08:42 AM

(475c) Reaction Analysis and Kinetics of Propionic Acid Hydrodeoxygenation over Supported Pt and Ru Catalysis
Joshua Gopeesingh, Jesse Bond

09:03 AM

(475d) Carbohydrate Stabilization Extends the Kinetic Limits of Chemical Polysaccharide Depolymerization
Ydna M. Questell-Santiago, Raquel Zambrano-Valera, Masoud Talebi Amiri, Jeremy Luterbacher

09:24 AM

(475e) Tuning Pathways for the Diversification of Biomass-Derived Coumalic Acid- Insights from First-Principles
Ashwin Chemburkar, Toni Pfennig, Robert Johnson, Matthew Ryan, Aaron Rossini, Brent H. Shanks, Matthew Neurock

09:45 AM

(475f) Selective Catalytic Production of Polyols from Cellulose-Derived Levoglucosenone
Siddarth H. Krishna, James A. Dumesic, George Huber, Zachary R. Schmidt

10:06 AM

(475g) Kinetic Studies of Acid Hydrolysis of Linear Polysaccharides from Food Waste
Elvis Ebikade, Jonathan Lym, Basudeb Saha, Dionisios G. Vlachos