2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Fundamentals and Strategies for Catalytic Biomass Conversion

Chair

Julia A. Valla, University of Connecticut

Co-Chair

Presentations

08:00 AM

(19a) Catalytic Reaction Pathways and Process Synthesis for Biomass Conversion to High-Value Chemicals for Organic Dye and Polymer Applications
Ishan Bajaj, Hochan Chang, Christos T. Maravelias, George Huber, James A. Dumesic

08:15 AM

(19b) Superacid Polymer Catalysts for Hydroxymethylfurfural Production
Ibeh S. Omodolor, Sarah A. Walz, Subhash Kalidindi, Vimantha Bamunuarachchi, Ravikumar Gogar, Sridhar Viamajala, Maria Coleman, Ana C. Alba-Rubio

08:30 AM

(19c) Rates of Levoglucosanol Hydrogenolysis over Brønsted and Lewis Acid Sites on Platinum Silica-Alumina Catalysts Synthesized By Atomic Layer Deposition
James A. Dumesic, Siddarth Krishna, Lifeng Zhang, Ive Hermans, Thomas F. Kuech, George Huber

08:45 AM

(19d) Tuning Performance of Ketone Partial Oxidation over Supported VOx and Its Utilization: Selective Maleic Anhydride Production from Levulinic Acid Oxidative Scission.
Ran Zhu, Bowei Liu, Siwen Wang, Jesse Bond, Anargyros Chatzidmitriou

09:00 AM

(19e) Selective Reduction of Carboxylic Acids to Aldehydes over Promoted MoO3 Catalyst
Steven Crossley, Laura Gomez Gomez, Mallikharjuna R. Komarneni, Jennifer A. Gutierrez

09:15 AM

(19f) Noble Metal Catalyzed Ketone Hydrogenation with Microkinetic Modeling
Jesse Bond, Omar Abdelrahman, Andreas Heyden, Xin Gao

09:30 AM

(19h) Bifunctional Ru@N-Doped Mesoporous Carbon Catalysts for Catalytic Transfer Hydrogenolysis of Bio-Derived Polyols
Wenxiang Zhang, Mingyu Zhao, Quanxing Zhang, Yurou Song, Jinyao Wang, Chaohe Yang, Xin Jin