Biomass Conversion to Fuels IV

Wednesday, June 5, 2013: 1:30 PM-3:10 PM
Ballroom A (Galt House Hotel)
Nelson Cardona-Martínez, University of Puerto Rico, PR and Jon P. Wagner, Clariant Corporation, USA.
1:30 PM
Glycerol Conversion in the Presence of Carbon Dioxide on Ni Catalyst
Fabio B. Passos1, Pedro Rodriguez1, Aracelis Pamphile1 and Josefina Zurita2, (1)Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil, (2)Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela.
1:50 PM
Effect of CH3Cl Impurity on Reforming Biogas using Rh/γAl2O3 catalyst
McKenzie P. Kohn, Columbia University, USA and Marco J. Castaldi, City College of City University of New York, USA.
2:10 PM
Deoxygenation of Octanoic Acid over Pd/SiO2 and PdAu/SiO2 Catalysts
Keyi Sun1, H. Henry Lamb1 and Adira Wilson2, (1)North Carolina State University, USA, (2)Duke University, USA.
2:30 PM
Deoxygenation of Bio-Oil Model Compounds over Carbon-Supported Noble Metal Catalysts
Simon Thompson and H. Henry Lamb, North Carolina State University, USA.
2:50 PM
First Principles Studies of the Conversion of Biomass-Derived Compounds by Noble Metal Catalysis
Bin Liu, Argonne National Laboratory, USA and Jeffrey P. Greeley, Purdue University, USA.