2020 Virtual AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Reaction Engineering for Biomass Conversion

Chair

Ramsurn, H., The University of Tulsa

Co-Chairs

Ramkrishnan, A., ExxonMobil Research and Engineering
Reza, T., 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
Chaudhary, N., Hensley, A., Shangguan, J., Wu, Z., Wu, D., Chin, Y. H., McEwen, J. S.

08:15 AM

(437b) Effects of Hydrophilicity on Aldol Condensation and Esterification Reactions of Acetaldehyde and Ethanol over Ti-BEA Catalysts
Zhang, Z., Berdugo-Diaz, C. E., Bregante, D., Zhang, H., Flaherty, D.

08:30 AM

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

08:45 AM

(437d) Selective Extraction of Furfural and 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural from Mixed Lignocellulosic Biomass-Derived Feedstocks in Biphasic Solvent Systems
Wang, Z., Bhattacharyya, S., Vlachos, D.

09:00 AM

(437e) Mesoscale Reaction?Diffusion Phenomena Governing Lignin?First Biomass Fractionation
Pecha, M. B., Thornburg, N. E., Brandner, D., Reed, M. L., Vermaas, J. V., Michener, W. E., Katahira, R., Vinzant, T. B., Foust, T. D., Donohoe, B., Chen, X., Sievers, D. A., Wolfrum, E., Roman, Y., Ciesielski, P. N., Beckham, G.

09:15 AM

(437f) A Combined CFD and Experimental Study on the Adsorption of Biomass Derived Molecules in Packed Bed Microreactors
Kritikos, A., Hsiao, Y. W., Ierapetritou, M., Tsilomelekis, G., Vlachos, D.

09:30 AM

(437g) Design and Characterization of a Microfixed-Bed for Reactive Separations of HMF
Hsiao, Y. W., Vlachos, D.