2019 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Catalysis for Biomass Upgrading I: Reaction Fundamentals

This session focuses on catalytic technologies for converting biomass or its derivatives into fuels and chemicals.

Chair

Tej S. Choksi, Stanford University

Co-Chair

Hilal Toraman, Penn State

Presentations

08:00 AM

(629a) Predicting an Optimal Oxide/Metal Interface Catalyst for Hydrodeoxygenation Chemistry of Biomass Derivatives

Michael Janik, Shyam Deo

08:18 AM

(629b) Developing Multi-Scale Models of Deoxygenation Reactions on Iron Carbide Catalysts: Hydrodeoxygenation of Phenol on Fe3C (001)

Neeru Chaudhary, Jacob Bray, Renqin Zhang, Yong Wang, Jean-Sabin McEwen

08:36 AM

(629c) Unravelling the Oxidative Coupling of Methanol on Au(111) Using First-Principles-Based Kinetic Modelling

Romain Reocreux, Ioanna Fampiou, Michail Stamatakis

08:54 AM

(629d) Brønsted Acid Sites on Tungsten Oxide/Platinum Catalysts

Shizhong Liu, Jiayi Fu, Weiqing Zheng, Stavros Caratzoulas, Dionisios G. Vlachos

09:12 AM

(629e) Hydrodeoxygenation over Ptwox Catalysts: Isotopic Labeling

Kyle Stephens, Alan Allgeier

09:30 AM

(629f) Effect of Metal Chlorides on Glucose Mutarotation and Implications on Humin Molecular Structure

Athanasios Kritikos, Pranav Ramesh, George Tsilomelekis

09:48 AM

(629g) Kinetic Modeling of Ethanol Oligomerization over Calcium Hydroxyapatite

Nathaniel Eagan, Michael Lanci, George Huber

10:06 AM

(629h) Investigating the Origins of Selectivity Toward Maleic Anhydride during the Oxidation of Levulinic Acid over Supported Vanadium Oxides

Ran Zhu, Jesse Bond, Anargyros Chatzidimitriou, Bowei Liu