Wednesday, November 7, 2007: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM
Room 150 D/E/F (Salt Palace Convention Center)

Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division (20)

#345 - Catalytic Hydrogen Generation - General I (20007)
Catalysts have an important role in generation of hydrogen from fossil fuels such as natural gas and coal as well as biorenewable feedstocks for the applications such as methanol/ammonia synthesis, fuel upgrading in the refineries, production of Fischer Tropsch fuels, vehicles (fuel cells and internal combustion engines) and electricity generation. This session addresses fundamentals, challenges and technology advances in catalysts related to all aspects of hydrogen generation including reactions such as reforming, gasification, water gas shift and clean-up. Papers include theory, kinetics, catalyst preparation, characterization, testing, lifetime evaluation and optimization of operational limits.
Chair:Jim Rekoske
CoChair:Parag P. Kulkarni
8:30 AMIntegrated Short Contact Time Hydrogen Generator (Scpo)
Ke K. Liu, Rick B. Watson, Wei Wei, Court Moorefield, Parag Kulkarni, Gregg Deluga
8:50 AMReaction Testing Of A Core-In-Shell Material Combining Catalysis And Sorption For H2 Production
Karl O. Albrecht, Justinus A. Satrio, Brent H. Shanks, Thomas D. Wheelock
9:10 AMA Cu/pt Near-Surface Alloy For Water-Gas Shift Catalysis
Anand U. Nilekar, Jan Knudsen, Ronnie T. Vang, Joachim Schnadt, Flemming Besenbacher, Manos Mavrikakis
9:30 AMComparison Of Unpromoted Ferrochrome Wgs Catalysts To Those Promoted With Au Or Cu
John S. Coleman, Carl R. F. Lund
9:50 AMStructural Water Gas Shift Catalysts
Tiberiu Popa, Guoqing Xu, Thomas L. Barton, Morris D. Argyle
10:10 AMAn Investigation Of Pt-Promoted Solid Acid Catalysts For Tar Removal From Biomass Gasification Gas For Cleaner Production Of Hydrogen
Sourabh S. Pansare, James G. Goodwin
10:30 AMK-Promoted Ru Catalysts For Ammonia Decomposition Discovered Using High-Throughput Experimentation
Elizabeth D'Addio, Rohit Vijay, Jason Binz, William D. Pyrz, Dionisios Vlachos, Douglas J. Buttrey, Jochen Lauterbach
10:50 AMCharacterization of K-Promoted Ru Catalysts for Hydrogen Production Via Ammonia Decomposition
William D. Pyrz, Rohit Vijay, Jason Binz, Dionisios Vlachos, Jochen Lauterbach, Douglas Buttrey

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