Topical 4: Sustainable Biorefineries

Session 687 - Chemical and Catalytic Conversions and Processes for Renewable Feedstocks
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.
Chair:Susan M. Stagg-Williams
CoChair:Dennis J. Miller
CoSponsor(s):Forest Products Division
Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division
Sustainable Engineering Forum (See also Topical E)
 Transesterification of Poultry Lipids Using Mg-Al Hydrotalcite Derived Catalysts
Yijun Liu, Edgar Lotero, James G. Goodwin, David Bruce
 Preliminary Investigations of the Catalytic Deoxygenation of Fatty Acids
A. More, John R. Schlup, Keith L. Hohn
 The Effects of Temperature and Hydrogen on Glycerol Adsorption on Ruthenium Metal
Lars Peereboom, J. E. Jackson, Dennis J. Miller
 In-Situ X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy of Supported Transition Metal Catalysts for Hydrogenolysis of Sorbitol and Oxidation of Glycerol
William C. Ketchie, Erin P. Maris, Robert J. Davis
 Break
 Highly Selective Conversion of Glycerol to Propylene Glycol
Galen J. Suppes, Chuang-Wei Chiu, William R. Sutterlin, Lizanette Rivera Ramos
 A New Route to Improved Glucose Yields in Cellulose Hydrolysis
Haibo Zhao, Jamelyn D. Holladay, J. M. White, Y. Wang, Z. C. Zhang
 Fundamentals of Conversion of Lignocellulosic Biomass to Liquid Fuels: Heat Transfer and Kinetics
Bo Zhang, Marc von Keitz, Kenneth Valentas

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