Workshop Program (Preliminary)
| Tuesday, April 13, 2004 | |||
| 7:00 - 8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast (provided) | ||
| 8:00 - 8:15 a.m. | Welcome and Introductions | ||
| 8:15 - 8:30 a.m. | NSF Welcoming Remarks | ||
| Dr. Esin Gulari, Director | Chemical and Thermal Systems, NSF | ||
| 8:30 - 8:45 a.m. | Workshop objectives and goals (Dennis Miller) | ||
| 8:45 - 10:00 a.m. | Targeting feedstocks, products, and processes | ||
| Doug Cameron | Cargill | ||
| Leo Manzer | DuPont | Levulinic acid derivatives: a case study on biomass conversion | |
| Questions, discussion | |||
| 10:00 - 10:15 a.m. | Break | ||
| 10:15 - 12:00 a.m. | Targeting feedstocks, products, and processes | ||
| P. Gallezot | IRC-CNRS, France | Catalytic processes for the transformation of renewables. A European perspective | |
| James Dumesic | U. Wisconsin | Hydrogen from catalytic reforming of biomass-derived hydrocarbons in liquid water | |
| Questions, discussion | |||
| Short Presentations | |||
| Lanny Schmidt | U. Minnesota | Ethanol reforming | |
| D. Miller | Michigan State Univ. | Catalyst deactivation from biogenic impurities | |
| 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. |
Lunch (Speaker: Stefan Buchholz, Degussa - Biocatalysis at Degussa) |
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| 1:00 - 2:45 p.m. | Fundamental catalyst science for biorenewables | ||
| Chris Williams | U. South Carolina | Bridging the liquid gap: in-situ vibrational spectroscopy of solid-liquid catalytic interfaces | |
| Matt Neurock | U. Virginia | Computational Catalysis Towards Elucidating the Catalytic Conversion of Renewable Resources | |
| Short Presentations | |||
| Bob Davis | U. Virginia | In-situ spectroscopic methods | |
| Manos Mavrikakis | U. Wisconsin | Water-gas-shift reaction mechanism | |
| Ned Jackson | Michigan State U. | Surface binding in aqueous-phase hydrogenation | |
| Questions, discussion | |||
| 2:45 - 3:00 p.m. | Break | ||
| 3:00 - 4:00p.m. | Breakout discussions - i) biorenewable feedstock, product, and process challenges; ii) analytical tools for in-situ catalyst and reaction characterization; iii) interfacing catalysis and biocatalysis; iv) catalysis for energy and fuels | ||
| 4:00 - 5:00 p.m. | Reports from breakout groups, discussion, identification of research priorities | ||
| 5:00 - 6:30 p.m. | Break | ||
| 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. | Dinner | ||
| Wednesday, April 14, 2004 | |||
| 7:00 - 8:00 a.m. | Breakfast | ||
| 8:00 - 8:15 a.m. | Review objectives, schedule | ||
| 8:15 - 10:00 a.m. | Novel catalyst materials | ||
| Geoff Coates | Cornell Univ. | Synthesis of biodegradable polymers from renewable resources | |
| Craig Hill | Emory University | Pollution-free conversion of trees to paper. Stable, equilibrating, self-buffering catalysts for selective 02-based oxidations in water | |
| Alex Katz | U.C. Berkeley | Imprinting functionality in silica catalysts | |
| Questions, discussion | |||
| 10:00 - 10:15 p.m. | Break | ||
| 10:15 - 11:15 a.m. | Novel catalyst materials | ||
| Brent Shanks | Iowa State Univ. | Design of metal izide-based catalysts for biorenewables conversion | |
| Hank Foley | Penn State Univ. | Nanopurous carbon membranes for transport and catalytic reactions | |
| Questions, discussion | |||
| Short Presentations | |||
| S. Scott | U.C. Santa Barbara | Hetergenous olefin metathesis catalysts | |
| D. Sholl | Carnegie-Mellon | Methods for producing chiral catalysts | |
| Ping Wang | Akron Univ. | Enzymatic biocatalysis for polymers | |
| 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 - 2:15 p.m. | Reaction/process engineering for biorenewable feedstock conversion | ||
| Phil Jessop | Queens Univ. | Homogeneous catalysis and catalyst recovery using environmentally benign solvents | |
| M. Dudukovic | Washington U. St. Louis | Multiphase reaction engineering in biomass conversion processes | |
| Questions and discussion | |||
| 2:15 - 2:30 p.m. | Break | ||
| 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. | Breakout groups - i) Reaction/process engineering, ii) novel oxide and support materials, iii) catalyst-substrate specifity: chirality and biomimetric character | ||
| 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. | Reports of breakout groups, identify priorities and challenges, summary discussion | ||