2017 Spring Symposium

8:00 AMReg­is­tra­tion / Break­fast
8:55 AMOpen­ing Remarks
9:00 AMEmerg­ing Chal­lenges In Catal­y­sis For Sus­tain­able Pro­duc­tion Of Trans­port Fuels: An Indus­tri­al View
Dr. John Shabak­er, BP Prod­ucts North Amer­i­ca
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9:40 AMSci­ence And Tech­nol­o­gy Of Frame­work Met­al-Con­tain­ing Mol­e­c­u­lar Sieves Cat­a­lysts
Prof. Las­z­lo Nemeth, Uni­ver­si­ty of Neva­da, Las Vegas
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10:20 AMCof­fee Break
10:40 AMSyn­the­sis Of Zin­cosil­i­cate Cat­a­lysts For The Oligomer­iza­tion Of Propy­lene
Dr. Mark Deimund, Exxon­Mo­bil Research and Engi­neer­ing Com­pa­ny
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11:20 AMZeo­lite Catal­y­sis With A Focus on Down­stream Refin­ing Appli­ca­tions
Dr. C.Y. Chen, Chevron Ener­gy Tech­nol­o­gy Com­pa­ny
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12:00 PMLunch
1:20 PMCon­tin­u­ous Reac­tors For Homo­ge­neous Catal­y­sis In Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Man­u­fac­tur­ing
Dr. Mar­tin John­son, Eli Lil­ly and Com­pa­ny
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2:00 PMMech­a­nisms And Mate­ri­als For Alka­line Hydro­gen Elec­tro­catal­y­sis
Prof. Mau­reen Tang, Drex­el Uni­ver­si­ty
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2:40 PM Award Announce­ment
2:55 PMCof­fee Break
3:15 PMPro­duc­tion Of para-Methyl­styrene And para-Divinyl­ben­zene From Furan­ic Com­pounds
Mau­ra Koehle, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware (Stu­dent Poster Award Speak­er)
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3:35 PMDesign Of Com­plex Met­al/Met­al-oxide Het­ero­ge­neous Cat­alyt­ic Mate­ri­als For Ener­gy And Chem­i­cal Con­ver­sion
Prof. Eran­da Nikol­la, Wayne State Uni­ver­si­ty
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4:15 PMThe Mech­a­nism Of CO2 Reduc­tion Over Pd/Al2O3: A Com­bined Steady State Iso­tope Tran­sient Kinet­ic Analy­sis (SSITKA) And Operan­do FTIR Inves­ti­ga­tion
Dr. János Szanyi, Pacif­ic North­west Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry
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4:55 PMClos­ing Remarks
5:00 PMCon­fer­ence Adjourns