2016 AIChE Annual Meeting

Session: Catalytic Processing of Fossil and Biorenewable Feedstocks I: C-O Bond Activation

Catalysis can play a key role in environmentally benign production of biodegradable and/or renewable chemicals and materials. This season focuses on catalyst and catalytic process development for producing chemicals and fuels from biomass, petroleum, and coal.

Chair

Ning Yan, National University of Singapore

Co-Chair

Jeremy Luterbacher, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne

Presentations

08:00 AM

(72a) Mechanism of Furfural Hydrodeoxygenation on Metal/Metal Oxide Catalysts
Alexander V. Mironenko, Glen R. Jenness, Dionisios G. Vlachos

08:15 AM

(72b) Kinetic Analysis of Hydrogenation and Hydrogenolysis of Complex Furans over Supported Noble Metals
Ying Lin Louie, Alexis T. Bell

08:30 AM

(72c) ZrO2 Is Preferred over TiO2 As Support for the Ru-Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Levulinic Acid to γ-Valerolactone
Homer Genuino, Jamal Ftouni, Li Lu, Christopher Kiely, Bert Weckhuysen, Pieter Bruijnincx

08:45 AM

(72d) C–O Bond Hydrogenolysis of Biomass–Derived Cyclic Ethers over Ni–Based Catalysts
Elmira Soghrati Khorasgani, Catherine Choong, Sibudjing Kawi, Armando Borgna

09:00 AM

(72e) A Novel Pathway to 1,5-Pentanediol without the Use of Noble Metals
Zachary Brentzel, Kevin J. Barnett, Kefeng Huang, Christos Maravelias, George Huber, James A. Dumesic

09:15 AM

(72f) Evaluation and Characterization of Carbon-Supported Nobel Metals for the Hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of Acetic Acid
Jose Contreras-Mora, J.R. Monnier, Christopher Williams

09:30 AM

(72g) Direct Conversion of Methane to Methanol and Ethanol
Carsten Sievers, Chukwuemeka Okolie, Yasmeen Belhseine, Eli Stavitski, Libor Kovarik

09:45 AM

(72h) Aqueous-Phase Phenol Hydrogenation over Platinum and Rhodium: Electrocatalysis Versus Thermal Catalysis
Nirala Singh, Charles Campbell, John L. Fulton, Donald M. Camaioni, Johannes A. Lercher, Yang Song, Oliver Gutiérrez

10:00 AM

(72i) Highly Efficient Conversion of Terpenoids to High Density Bio- Jet Fuels
Xiaokun Yang, Hongfei Lin