Industrial Chemicals from Lower Alcohols

Thursday, June 18, 2015: 8:00 AM-9:40 AM
301-303 (Lawrence Convention Center)
Krijn de Jong1, Steven S.C. Chuang2 and Krijn de Jong1, (1)Utrecht University, Netherlands(2)The University of Akron, USA.
8:00 AM
Acetylene Hydrochlorination Using Carbon-Supported Gold Catalysts: A Study of the Nature of the Active Species
Catherine Davies1, Graham Hutchings1, Xi Liu1, David Morgan1, David Elias1, Peter Johnston2, Li Lu3, Christopher J. Kiely3 and Marco Conte4, (1)Cardiff University, United Kingdom, (2)Johnson Matthey Catalysts, United Kingdom, (3)Lehigh University, USA, (4)Sheffield University, United Kingdom.
8:20 AM
The Cu-ZnO Synergy in Methanol Synthesis: Origin of Active Site Explained By Experimental Studies and a Sphere Contact Quantification Model on Cu+ZnO Mechanical Mixtures
Céline Tisseraud, Anthony Le Valant, Clément Comminges, Christine Canaff, Ludovic Pinard and Yannick Pouilloux, IC2MP-Université de Poitiers, France.
8:40 AM
WITHDRAWN Co-Reaction of Methanol and Ethylene over H[Al]MFI Catalyst
Qingjun Zhu, National Institute of Clean-And-Low-Carbon Energy, China.
9:00 AM
C2-C4 Alcohol Dehydration on γ-Al2O3: Site Requirements, Mechanisms, and Effects of Carbon Chain Length and Substitution
Minje Kang, Joseph DeWilde and Aditya Bhan, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA.
9:20 AM
Developing Industrial Methanol Catalysts: Using Lab-Scale Understanding to Optimize a Well-Known Process
Sebastian Werner, Nikolas Jacobsen, Tobias Henkel, Wolfgang Seuffert, Benjamin Kniep, Willi Brandstädter and Andreas Reitzmann, Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH, Germany.