2023 Spring Symposium and Poster Session

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Virtual Symposium Agenda
Wednesday, May 24th, 2023

Time (East­ern)Speak­er and Title
8:00 AMBreak­fast and social hour
9:00 AMOpen­ing remarks
9:10 AMKeynote, Prof. Robert Far­rauto, Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty
Dual Func­tion Mate­ri­als (DFM) for direct air cap­ture of CO2 and its’ cat­alyt­ic con­ver­sion to CH4: Engi­neer­ing a solu­tion towards mit­i­gat­ing cli­mate change
9:55 AMDr. Haiy­ing Chen, Oak Ridge Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry
Mono­lith Sup­port­ed Mul­ti­func­tion­al Cat­a­lysts for the Direct Con­ver­sion of CO2 to Dimethyl Ether
10:25 AMTea break
10:40 AMProf. Huiyuan Zhu, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia
Well-Defined, Atom­i­cal­ly Pre­cise Cat­a­lysts for Sus­tain­able Chem­istry
11:10 AMDr. Paula­mi Majum­dar, Dow
Dis­cov­ery of Nov­el Cat­a­lysts for the Selec­tive Vapor-Phase Methoxy­car­bony­la­tion of Eth­yl­ene
11:40 AMLunch (Buf­fet)
13:00 PMAfter­noon pro­gram open­ing remarks
13:05 PMKeynote, Dr. Prof. Dion­i­sios Vla­chos, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Cat­alyt­ic Upcy­cling Tech­nolo­gies for Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and Cir­cu­lar­i­ty
13:50 PMDr. John R. Lock­e­mey­er, Shell
The Shell Eth­yl­ene Oxide Cat­a­lyst Jour­ney
14:20 PMTea break
14:35 PMDr. Basudeb Saha, Rikar­bon
Recy­cling Plas­tics for a Clean­er Plan­et
15:05 PMStu­dent talk, Kai Shen, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
Reversible per­ovskite-flu­o­rite phase tran­si­tion in alu­mi­na-sup­port­ed CeFeOx films and their use as Pt sup­port
15:25 PMSym­po­sium clos­ing remarks and Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion intro­duc­tion
15:30 PMStu­dent Poster Ses­sion and social hour
17:00 PMCon­fer­ence clos­ing

2022 Virtual Spring Symposium

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Virtual Symposium Agenda
Thurs, May 5th, 2022

Time (East­ern)Speak­er and Title
8:50Open­ing Remarks / Intro­duc­tion
9:00Keynote, Prof. Raj Gounder, Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty
Con­se­quences of Cou­pled Reac­tion-Dif­fu­sion Phe­nom­e­na for Alkene Oligomer­iza­tion Catal­y­sis by Bron­st­ed Acid Zeo­lites
9:45Dr. Michael Berg, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
Cat­alyt­ic Approach­es and Tools to Val­orize Poly­mer Plas­tics Waste
10:20Ram­chan­dra Gawas, Drex­el Uni­ver­si­ty
Ion­ic Liq­uid Com­pos­ite Elec­tro­cat­a­lysts for the Oxy­gen Reduc­tion Reac­tion
10:45Break
11:00Prof. Michele Sarazen, Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty
Reac­tion, Dif­fu­sion, and Deac­ti­va­tion Rates of Aro­mat­ic Alky­la­tion and Alco­hol Ether­i­fi­ca­tion on Hier­ar­chi­cal Zeo­lites
11:30Prof. Bin Liu, Kansas State Uni­ver­si­ty
“1+1>2”: Evi­dence for Pro­mot­ed Cat­alyt­ic Per­for­mance on Bina­ry Cat­a­lysts from Kinet­ic Mod­el­ing
12:05Clos­ing Remarks

Virtual Symposium Agenda
Fri, May 6th, 2022

Time (East­ern)Speak­er and Title
8:50Open­ing Remarks / Intro­duc­tion
9:00Dr. Partha Nan­di, Exxon­Mo­bil
Direct Par­tial Oxi­da­tion of Methane to Methanol: New Learn­ings in an Old Chal­lenge
9:35Prof. Carsten Siev­ers, Geor­gia Tech
Fun­da­men­tals and Appli­ca­tions of Mechanocat­alyt­ic Process­es
10:10Keynote, Prof. Susan­nah Scott, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San­ta Bar­bara
Cat­alyt­ic Upcy­cling of Poly­olefins to Val­ue-added Mol­e­cules by Hydro­gen Redis­tri­b­u­tion
10:55Break
11:05Announce­ments
11:10Dr. George Fort­man, MBA, The Cat­a­lyst Group
Gold Spon­sor Talk
11:20Dr. Fabi­en Rioult, Zeolyst Inter­na­tion­al / Ecovyst
Gold Spon­sor Talk
11:30Dr. David West, SABIC
Sur­pris­es and Dis­guis­es in Oxida­tive Cou­pling of Methane
12:05Clos­ing Remarks

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2021 Virtual Spring Symposium

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Virtual Symposium Agenda
Thurs, May 20th, 2021

Time (East­ern)Speak­erTitle
8:50Open­ing Remarks / Intro­duc­tion
9:00Vladimiros Niko­lakis, W.L. Gore & Asso­ciates, Inc.Mod­el­ing of gas trans­port and adsorp­tion con­sid­er­ing liq­uid accu­mu­la­tion in the pore net­work of Sor­bent Poly­mer Com­pos­ite mate­ri­als for mer­cury removal from flue gas
9:40Gold Spon­sor Talk,
Valerie Stephens,
The Cat­a­lyst Group
The Cat­a­lyst Group (TCG) & The Cat­a­lyst Group Resources (TCGR) AT A GLANCE
9:55Crispin Coop­er, John­son MattheyPer­ovskite Met­al-Oxides for Auto­mo­tive Three-Way Catal­y­sis
10:35Break
10:55Hongliang Xin, Vir­ginia TechInter­pretable Deep Learn­ing for Accel­er­at­ing Cat­alyt­ic Mate­ri­als
11:35Charles Mullen, USDA-ARS East­ern Region­al Research Cen­terCat­alyt­ic pyrol­y­sis of Bio­mass: Devel­op­ment and Demon­stra­tion
12:05Clos­ing Remarks

Virtual Symposium Agenda
Fri, May 21st, 2021

Time (East­ern)Speak­erTitle
8:50Open­ing Remarks / Intro­duc­tion
9:00Keynote, Mark A. Barteau, Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­tyA forty-year tour of sur­face acid-base chem­istry: from solu­tion to the gas phase and back again
9:40Gold Spon­sor Talk, Josh Pacheco, Zeolyst Inter­na­tion­alAddress­ing the Chal­lenge of Man­u­fac­tur­ing High­ly Siliceous Zeo­lites
9:55Krish­na Jan­manchi and Dimi Kat­soulis, Dow Sil­i­cones Cor­po­ra­tionTwo-Step Process for the Syn­the­sis of Dimethyldichlorosi­lane using Cop­per Alu­mi­nate Cat­a­lysts
10:35Award Announce­ment
10:50Break
11:10William Medlin, Uni­ver­si­ty of Col­oradoCon­trol­ling selec­tiv­i­ty in reac­tions of com­plex oxy­genates over met­al cat­a­lysts
11:50Sil­ver Spon­sor Talk, Vladimiros Niko­lakis and John Hol­combe, W.L. Gore & Asso­ciates, Inc.GORE PTFE-cat­a­lyst com­pos­ites: Enabling cat­a­lyst acces­si­bil­i­ty in chal­leng­ing envi­ron­ments
12:00Bin Zhang, Lehigh Uni­ver­si­tyTun­ing the Sur­face Active Sites by Sur­face Mod­i­fi­ca­tion of Sup­port­ed ReOx/(SiO2-Al2O3) Cat­a­lysts for Olefin Metathe­sis
12:40Clos­ing Remarks
12:50Con­fer­ence Adjourns

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2019 Spring Symposium

8:00 AM Reg­is­tra­tion Opens / Con­ti­nen­tal Break­fast
8:50 AM Open­ing Remarks
9:00 AM Natalia Rodriguez Quiroz, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
     Under­stand­ing Acid­i­ty of Molten Salt Hydrate Media for Cel­lu­lose Hydrol­y­sis by Cou­pling Kinet­ic Stud­ies, Elec­trolyte Solu­tion Mod­el­ing, and 13C-NMR Exper­i­ments
9:40 AM Phil Christo­pher, Uni­ver­si­ty of Cal­i­for­nia, San­ta Bar­bara
    Con­trol­ling the local coor­di­na­tion and reac­tiv­i­ty of oxide-sup­port­ed atom­i­cal­ly dis­persed Pt-group species
10:20 AM Cof­fee Break
10:40 AM Johannes Lercher, Tech­nis­che Uni­ver­sität München/PNNL
     A bridge to enzymes? -Role of steric con­straints and chem­i­cal envi­ron­ment for catal­y­sis
11:20 AM Stu Soled, Exxon­Mo­bil Research and Engi­neer­ing Co
     Sup­port­ed Bimetal­lic Noble Met­al Cat­a­lysts Pre­pared with Bifunc­tion­al Organ­ic Chelates
12:00 PM Lunch
12:40 PM Lunch Con­tin­ued and Stu­dent Poster Ses­sion
1:50 PM Wyn­ter Osmin­s­ki, Evonik Cor­po­ra­tion
     A new fam­i­ly of acti­vat­ed Nick­el fixed-bed cat­a­lysts
2:30 PM Plat­inum Spon­sor Talk, Jamie Blan­ton, Evonik Cor­po­ra­tion
2:45 PM Award Announce­ment
3:00 PM Cof­fee Break
3:20 PM Edward Calver­ley, The Dow Chem­i­cal Com­pa­ny
     Engi­neer­ing Analy­sis for Catal­y­sis and Cat­alyt­ic Process­es
4:00 PM Steven Cross­ley, Uni­ver­si­ty of Okla­homa
     Con­ver­sion of renew­able oxy­genates to high val­ue prod­ucts over reducible oxides
4:40 PM Clos­ing Remarks
4:45 PM Con­fer­ence Adjourns
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2018 Spring Symposium

8:00 AMReg­is­tra­tion / Break­fast
8:55 AMOpen­ing Remarks
9:00 AMFab­ri­ca­tion of Nano-Struc­tured Cat­a­lyst Sup­ports by ALD
Prof. Ray­mond J. Gorte, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
Abstract »
9:40 AMInflu­ence of Con­fin­ing Envi­ron­ment Polar­i­ty on Ethanol Dehy­dra­tion Catal­y­sis by Lewis Acid Zeo­lites
Prof. Raja­mani Gounder, Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty
Abstract »
10:20 AMCof­fee Break
10:40 AMLow tem­per­a­ture NOx stor­age on zeo­lite sup­port­ed Pd for low tem­per­a­ture diesel engine emis­sion con­trol
Dr. Loredana Man­taroşie, John­son Matthey Tech­nol­o­gy Cen­tre
Abstract »
11:20 AMMech­a­nisms, active inter­me­di­ates, and descrip­tors for epox­i­da­tion rates and selec­tiv­i­ties on dis­persed ear­ly tran­si­tion met­als
Prof. David Fla­her­ty, Uni­ver­si­ty of Illi­nois, Urbana-Cham­paign
Abstract »
12:00 PMLunch
1:10 PMCom­mer­cial Per­spec­tive of Alter­na­tive Routes to Acrylic Acid Monomer
Dr. Jin­suo Xu, Dow Chem­i­cal Com­pa­ny
Abstract »
1:50 PMTun­ing the Elec­tro­cat­alyt­ic Oxy­gen Reduc­tion Reac­tion Activ­i­ty of PtCo Nanocrys­tals by Cobalt Con­cen­tra­tion and Phase Trans­for­ma­tion Meth­ods
Jen­nifer D. Lee, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia (Recip­i­ent of the T.A. Koch Grad­u­ate Stu­dent Trav­el Award)
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2:30 PM Award Announce­ment
2:40 PMCof­fee Break
2:55 PMSelec­tive Cat­alyt­ic Oxi­da­tion of Alco­hols over Sup­port­ed Met­al Nanopar­ti­cles and Atom­i­cal­ly-Dis­persed Met­al Cations
Prof. Robert J. Davis, Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia
Abstract »
3:35 PMUsing Water as a Co-cat­a­lyst in Het­ero­ge­neous Catal­y­sis to Improve Activ­i­ty and Selec­tiv­i­ty
Prof. Lars C. Grabow, Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton
Abstract »
4:15 PMRenew­able Iso­prene By Sequen­tial Hydro­gena­tion of Ita­con­ic Acid and Dehy­dra-Decy­cliza­tion of 3-Methyl-Tetrahy­dro­fu­ran
Dr. Omar Abdel­rah­man, Uni­ver­si­ty of Min­neso­ta
Abstract »
4:55 PMClos­ing Remarks
5:00 PMCon­fer­ence Adjourns
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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
Abstract »
9:40 AMSci­ence And Tech­nol­o­gy Of Frame­work Met­al-Con­tain­ing Mol­e­c­u­lar Sieves Cat­a­lysts
Prof. Las­z­lo Nemeth, Uni­ver­si­ty of Neva­da, Las Vegas
Abstract »
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
Abstract »
12:00 PMLunch
1:20 PMCon­tin­u­ous Reac­tors For Homo­ge­neous Catal­y­sis In Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Man­u­fac­tur­ing
Dr. Mar­tin John­son, Eli Lil­ly and Com­pa­ny
Abstract »
2:00 PMMech­a­nisms And Mate­ri­als For Alka­line Hydro­gen Elec­tro­catal­y­sis
Prof. Mau­reen Tang, Drex­el Uni­ver­si­ty
Abstract »
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)
Abstract »
3:35 PMDesign Of Com­plex Met­al/Met­al-oxide Het­ero­ge­neous Cat­alyt­ic Mate­ri­als For Ener­gy And Chem­i­cal Con­ver­sion
Prof. Eran­da Nikol­la, Wayne State Uni­ver­si­ty
Abstract »
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