2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Catalysis in Liquid Media II: Biomass Conversion

Chair

Neeraj Rai, Mississippi State University

Co-Chairs

Manish Shetty, University of Minnesota
Ambarish Kulkarni, University of California, Davis

Presentations

08:00 AM

(729a) Deactivation and Regeneration of Carbon Supported Pt and Ru Catalysts in Aqueous Phase Hydrogenation of 2-Pentanone
Jiajie Huo, Hien N. Pham, Yan Cheng, Hsi-Hsin Lin, Luke Roling, Abhaya K. Datye, Brent H. Shanks

08:15 AM

(729b) Tuning the Rate of Aromatic Hydrogenation By Systematic Variation of the Solvent and Surface Polarity in Mesoporous Organosilicas
Hyunjin Moon, Sonja D. Mu?rtz, Songi Han, Susannah L. Scott

08:30 AM

(729c) Hydrodeoxygenation of Guaiacol Using Ni and Ru on Various Activated Carbon Supports in Aqueous and Organic Solutions
Lei Yu, Julia A. Valla

08:45 AM

(729d) Theoretical Study of the Effects of Co-Adsorbed Water on Acetic Acid Decomposition.
Liney Arnadottir, Kingsley Chukwu

09:00 AM

(729e) Solvent Effects on Intermolecular Mpvo and Cycloaddition Reactions in Zeolites with Different Intrapore Polarity
John Di Iorio, Yuriy Roman

09:15 AM

(729f) Thermodynamics Driven Kinetics in Acidic Ion Exchange Resin Catalysed Esterification
Jeroen Lauwaert, Jeriffa De Clercq, Joris Thybaut

09:45 AM

(729h) Production of Levoglucosenone from the Catalytic Dehydration of Cellulose and Levoglucosan Using Low Concentrations of Sulfuric Acid in ?-Valerolactone
Alexa M. González-Rosario, Oscar Oyola-Rivera, Nelson Cardona Martinez, Ángel N. Santiago-Colón