2025 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Hydrocarbon Conversion I: Approaches to C1 Valorization

This session broadly welcomes all topics on catalytic upgrading of hydrocarbons, including fundamental and practical studies related to selective activation of C1 through coupling and aromatization.

Chair

Jianli Hu, West Virginia University

Co-Chair

Presentations

12:30 PM

(117a) Investigating the Influence of H2o on Cu Active Site Mobility, Structure, and Reactivity for Continuous Partial Methane Oxidation
Lauren Kilburn, Jose Rebolledo-Oyarce, Angel Santiago-Colón, William F Schneider, Rajamani Gounder

12:48 PM

(117b) Kinetic Modeling and Mechanistic Understandings of Catalytic Methane Pyrolysis to Produce CO2-Free Hydrogen and Carbon Nanotubes
Caleb Bavlnka, Laura Gomez Gomez, Phuong Nguyen Thi, Ranuja Bandara, Eymi Layza Escobar, Steven P. Crossley

01:06 PM

(117c) Support Effects in Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis.
Truc Phung, Christian Andrade, Liney Arnadottir, Gregory R. Johnson, Konstantinos Goulas

01:24 PM

(117d) Plasma-Assisted Oxidative Coupling of Methane over Sodium-Promoted Gold Catalysts
Yiteng Zheng, Zihan Lin, Hengfei Gu, Bruce E. Koel

01:42 PM

(117e) Tuning the Interplay of Metal and Oxygen Sites within Mixed-Metal Oxides for Oxidative Methane Conversions
Rachel A. Yang, Eranda Nikolla

02:00 PM

(117f) Quantifying Rates and Active Sites in Carbon Surfaces That Catalyze Non-Oxidative Coupling of Methane
Justin Rosa-Rojas, Rajamani Gounder

02:18 PM

(117g) Computational Design of Single Atom Alloy Catalysts for Direct Methane-to-Ethylene Conversion
Chengyu Zhou, Qing Zhao

02:36 PM

(117h) Improved Study of the Oxidative Coupling of Methane (OCM) at Elevated Pressure: Investigating Gas Phase OCM Using Calculated Reactor Bed Void Volume
Kevin Enyekwe, John Meynard Tengco, Madan Bhasin, John Monnier