2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Reaction Engineering for Biomass Conversion

Chair

Hema Ramsurn, The University of Tulsa

Co-Chairs

Aruna Ramkrishnan, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Toufiq Reza, Florida Institute of Technology

Presentations

08:00 AM

(437a) Determining the Effect of Water during the Catalytic Reduction of Propanal to Alcohols on Ru-Based Catalysts
Neeru Chaudhary, Alyssa Hensley, Junnan Shangguan, Zhenwei Wu, Di Wu, Ya-Huei (Cathy) Chin, Jean-Sabin McEwen

08:15 AM

(437b) Effects of Hydrophilicity on Aldol Condensation and Esterification Reactions of Acetaldehyde and Ethanol over Ti-BEA Catalysts
Zhongyao Zhang, Claudia E. Berdugo-Diaz, Daniel Bregante, Hongbo Zhang, David Flaherty

08:30 AM

(437c) Investigating the Influence of Co-Solvents on Acid Catalyzed, Condensed Phase Biomass Reactions Using Molecular Dynamics and Metadynamics.
José Carlos Velasco Calderón, Shang Jiang, Samir H. Mushrif

08:45 AM

(437d) Selective Extraction of Furfural and 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural from Mixed Lignocellulosic Biomass-Derived Feedstocks in Biphasic Solvent Systems
Zhaoxing Wang, Souryadeep Bhattacharyya, Dionisios Vlachos

09:00 AM

(437e) Mesoscale Reaction?Diffusion Phenomena Governing Lignin?First Biomass Fractionation
M. Brennan Pecha, Nicholas E. Thornburg, David Brandner, Michelle L. Reed, Josh V. Vermaas, William E. Michener, Rui Katahira, Todd B. Vinzant, Thomas D. Foust, Bryon Donohoe, Xiaowen Chen, David A. Sievers, Edward Wolfrum, Yuriy Roman, Peter N. Ciesielski, Gregg Beckham

09:15 AM

(437f) A Combined CFD and Experimental Study on the Adsorption of Biomass Derived Molecules in Packed Bed Microreactors
Athanasios Kritikos, Yung Wei Hsiao, Marianthi Ierapetritou, George Tsilomelekis, Dionisios Vlachos

09:30 AM

(437g) Design and Characterization of a Microfixed-Bed for Reactive Separations of HMF
Yung Wei Hsiao, Dionisios Vlachos