737 Chemical and Catalytic Conversions and Processes for Renewable Feedstocks

Thursday, November 1, 2012: 3:15 PM
334 (Convention Center )
Description:
Explore advances in products and processes based on chemically- or catalytically-mediated conversion of renewable substrates. Favor contributions that demonstrate the sound application of core scientific and engineering principles.

Sponsor:
Sustainable Biorefineries
Co-Sponsor(s):
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division (20), ICE 2012: Biorefinery Technologies for Forest Based Lignocellulosic Biomass (T4A), ICE2012: BioFuels (T4F), Topical B: 2nd Annual World Congress on Sustainable Engineering (TB)

Chair:
Debangsu Bhattacharyya
Email: Debangsu.bhattacharyya@mail.wvu.edu

Co-Chair:
Hongfei Lin
Email: hongfeil@unr.edu


3:15 PM
(737a) Catalytic Performance of Char for Reduction of Tars in Biomass Gasification
Naomi Klinghoffer, Marco J. Castaldi and Ange Nzihou

3:40 PM
(737b) Coupling Biomass Conversion with CO2 Reduction in Hot Temperature Water
Hongfei Lin

4:05 PM
(737c) Alkene Metathesis of Camelina FAME with Supercritical Ethylene
Randy Maglinao, Akash Narani and Nestor Soriano Jr.

4:30 PM
(737d) Kinetics of Mixed Alcohol Ethanol/Butanol Esterification of Butyric Acid
Arati Santhanakrishnan, Dennis Miller, Lars Peereboom, Carl T. Lira and Abigail Shannon

4:55 PM
(737e) In-Situ Catalytic Upgrading of Pinewood Pyrolysis Vapors: Effect of Process Variables
Vamshi Krishna Guda, Hossein Toghiani, Rebecca K. Toghiani and Charles U. Pittman Jr.

5:20 PM
(737f) Catalytic Hydrodeoxygenation of Guaiacol
Danni Gao, Hyun Tae Hwang and Arvind Varma
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