Session: Catalytic Processing of Fossil and Biorenewable Feedstocks: Chemicals (2009 Annual Meeting)

Monday, November 9, 2009: 3:15 PM

Tennessee D (Gaylord Opryland Hotel)

Description:

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

Sponsor:

Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division

Co-Sponsor(s):

Forest and Plant Bioproducts Division (17), Sustainable Engineering Forum (23)

Chair:

Shijie Liu
Email: sliu@esf.edu

Co-Chair:

Susan Williams
Email: smwilliams@ku.edu

3:15 PM

(135a) Granular Type of Supported CaO Catalyst for a Continuous Flow Reactor
Manhoe Kim, Shuli Yan, Steven O. Salley and K.Y. Simon Ng

3:35 PM

(135b) An Improved Approach to Make Cyclic Acetals From Glycerol
Xi Hong, Aspi K. Kolah, Omar McGiveron, Carl T. Lira and Dennis J. Miller

3:55 PM

(135c) First Principles Analysis of the Aqueous Phase Selective Oxidation of Ethanol Over Model Pd, Au and Pt Surfaces
David Hibbitts and Matthew Neurock

4:15 PM

(135d) Reactions of Methyl Esters On Supported Platinum Catalysts
Phuong T. Do, Min Shen, Rolf Jentoft and Daniel E. Resasco

4:35 PM

(135e) Selective Oxidation of Glycerol to High-Value Chemical Dihydroxyactone Over PtBi/C Catalyst
Wenbin Hu, Daniel Knight and Arvind Varma

5:00 PM

(135f) Free Energy Landscape for Glucose Reactions From Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics Simulations
Ji-Lai Li, Mark Nimlos, David K. Johnson, Michael E. Himmel and Xianghong Qian

5:20 PM

(135g) Developing Catalyst Design Strategies for Reactions of Multifunctional Oxygenates
J. Will Medlin, Clay M. Horiuchi and Michael Griffin

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