2019 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Catalysis for Biomass Upgrading III: Novel Conversion Strategies

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

Chair

George Tsilomelekis, Rutgers University

Co-Chair

Basudeb Saha, University of Delaware

Presentations

03:30 PM

(720a) Hydrogenolysis of Lignin Model Compounds over Transition Metal Catalysts in a Continuous Flow Reactor
Benginur Demir, Yanding Li, Leida M. Vazquez-Ramos, John Ralph, James A. Dumesic

03:48 PM

(720b) Challenges and Opportunities in the Production of Dimethylfuran from Sugars By Performing Tandem Catalysis
Sebastian Prodinger, Raul Lobo, Basudeb Saha, Dionisios G. Vlachos

04:06 PM

(720c) Catalytic Carbon-Carbon Bond Coupling for Producing Biolubricants from Mixed Organic Acids
Elnaz Jamalzade, Gerard Van Walsum, Koorosh Kashkooli, Thomas Schwartz

04:24 PM

(720d) Regio- and Stereo- Selective Synthesis of Hexane-Tetrols and -Triols from Methyl Glycosides over Supported Metal Catalysts
Siddarth H. Krishna, James A. Dumesic, George Huber, Ji Cao, Masazumi Tamura, Yoshinao Nakagawa, Graeme S. Jacobson, Keiichi Tomishige, Mario De bruyn, Bert M. Weckhuysen

04:42 PM

(720e) Mechanism and Kinetics of Ethanol and Acetone Conversion to Isobutene over Zinc Zirconium Mixed Oxide
Alexis Bell, Julie Rorrer, Dean Toste

05:00 PM

(720f) Effects of Metal Sites on Co-Reactions of Light Alkanes and Biomass-Derived Oxygenates
Eric Lin, Dante Simonetti

05:18 PM

(720g) Catalytic Production of Renewable Lubricant Base Oils from Biomass
Sibao Liu, Basudeb Saha, Dionisios G. Vlachos

05:36 PM

(720h) Fundamentals of Mechanocatalysis for Lignin Valorization
Andrew Tricker, George Samaras, Karoline Hebisch, Matthew J. Realff, Carsten Sievers