2019 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: The Role of Solvents in Biomass Upgrading

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

Chair

Marc Porosoff, University of Rochester

Co-Chair

Arthur Shih, University of Michigan

Presentations

03:30 PM

(426a) Leaching of Rhenium Species from Oxide-Supported Deoxydehydration Catalysts for Biomass Upgrading: Support, Solvent and Reactant Effects
Bryan E. Sharkey, Friederike Jentoft

03:48 PM

(426b) Effect of Sulfuric Acid and Solvent Environment in the Hydrogenolysis of Glycerol on ReOx-Ir Catalyst: A Combined Experimental and Computational Study
Jithin John Varghese, Liwei Cao, Christopher Robertson, Yanhui Yang, Lynn F. Gladden, Alexei Lapkin, Samir H. Mushrif

04:06 PM

(426c) Understanding the Adsorption and Hydrogenation of Model Bio-Oil Compounds in Aqueous Phase
Nirala Singh, Bryan Goldsmith, James Akinola, Isaiah Barth

04:24 PM

(426d) Effects of Chloride Ions in Acid-Catalyzed Biomass Dehydration Reactions in Polar Aprotic Solvents
Max A. Mellmer, Benginur Demir, Chotitath Sanpitakseree, Kaiwen Ma, William Elliott, Peng Bai, Robert L. Johnson, Theodore Walker, Brent H. Shanks, Robert Rioux, Matthew Neurock, James A. Dumesic

04:42 PM

(426e) The Effect of Solvents and Amine-Functionalized Metal-Organic Frameworks in Glucose Isomerization to Fructose
Mohammad Shahinur Rahaman, Md. Anwar Hossain, Thanh Khoa Phung, Sarttrawut Tulaphol, Mark Crocker, Noppadon Sathitsuksanoh

05:00 PM

(426f) Conversion of Dihydroxyacetone into Lactic Acid over Metal Phosphates Catalysts in a Packed Bed Reactor
Carsten Sievers, Giada Innocenti, Andrew Medford, Giuseppe Fornasari, Fabrizio Cavani

05:18 PM

(426g) Investigation of Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Glycerol Aqueous Phase Reforming Via Multi-Scale Simulations
Tianjun Xie, Rachel B. Getman

05:36 PM

(426h) Understanding the Colloidal Surface Interactions between Solid Acid Catalysts and Cellulose Using DLVO Theory
Michael T. Timko, Ziyang Zhang