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Meet­ing reg­is­tra­tion and poster set­up will start at 8:30 am.
Web­site: North­east Cor­ri­dor Zeo­lite Asso­ci­a­tion

2012 NECZA Announce­ment

List of Poster Abstracts

Web­site:

 
Each year the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia rec­og­nizes an out­stand­ing mem­ber of the catal­y­sis com­mu­nity, who has made sig­nif­i­cant con­tri­bu­tions to the advance­ment of Catal­y­sis. Such advance­ment can be sci­en­tific, tech­no­log­i­cal, or in orga­ni­za­tion lead­er­ship. The Award con­sists of a plaque and a $1000 cash prize.

We appre­ci­ate your help in sub­mit­ting nom­i­na­tions. The entire nom­i­na­tion pack­age, includ­ing a resume and rec­om­men­da­tion let­ters, should not be more than 10 pages and should include a ½ page ten­ta­tive award announce­ment. The dead­line for the receipt of nom­i­na­tions is April 19, 2013. Pri­or nom­i­na­tion pack­ages sent in 2011 or lat­er will auto­mat­i­cally be con­sid­ered for the 2013 Award.

Nom­i­na­tion let­ter along with sup­port­ing mate­ri­als should be emailed to fedeyjm@​jmusa.​com.

Joseph Fedeyko
John­son Matthey ECT
436 Devon Park Dri­ve
Wayne, PA 19087
Tel. 610–341‑8218
Fax 610–341‑3495

Invited Speakers (alphabetical order)

 
Devel­op­ing HDS under­stand­ing based on real feed-stocks
Tushar V. Choud­hary, Phillips 66, Bartlesville, OK
 
From Hydrodesul­fu­r­iza­tion to Hydrodeoxy­gena­tion: What are the sim­i­lar­i­ties at the atom­­ic-scale?
Lars C. Grabow, Uni­ver­si­ty of Hous­ton, TX
 
Shell Alter­na­tive Trans­port Fuels,
Kim John­son, Shell Chem­i­cal Co., Hous­ton, TX
 
Advances in Hydropro­cess­ing Cat­a­lyst Tech­nol­o­gy: The Dis­cov­ery of ExxonMobil/Albemarle’s Neb­u­la Cat­a­lyst
Doron Levin, Exxon­Mo­bil, Annan­dale, NJ
 
Nanos­truc­tured Gold Mod­el Cat­a­lysts on Oxy­­gen-free Sub­strates
Li Liu, Depart­ment of Chem­istry, Texas A&M Uni­ver­si­ty
 
Nat­ur­al Gas to Syn­gas using Rh-sub­­sti­­tut­ed pyrochlore (La₂Zr₂O₇) cat­a­lysts
Jer­ry Spivey (LSU), D. Pakhare (LSU), D. Haynes (DoE/NETL), D. Shekhawat (DoE/NETL), V. Abdel­sayed (DoE/NETL)

 
Advance Online Reg­is­tra­tion »

 
Invi­ta­tion

We invite you to join us at the 23rd North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety Meet­ing to be held from June 2–7, 2013 in Louisville, Ken­tucky at the his­toric Halt House Hotel. This meet­ing is the pre­mier sci­en­tif­ic event in the field of catal­y­sis research and devel­op­ment in 2013. Tech­no­log­i­cal chal­lenges, break­through dis­cov­er­ies and state-of-the-art aca­d­e­m­ic and indus­tri­al research will be fea­tured.

The open­ing recep­tion of the 23rd NAM will take place at Churchill Downs, home of the Ken­tucky Der­by.

Weblink:23 NAM

Formal Invitation from Honorary Chair, Prof. Dr. Robert K. Grasselli

 
As we all know, catal­y­sis has its roots almost 200 years back, dat­ing to Berzel­lius, who first coined the word and intro­duced the con­cept of catal­y­sis in 1821. Much has been accom­plished in the area of catal­y­sis since that ear­ly time, par­tic­u­lar­ly in the past 100 years. In that peri­od, some of the most impor­tant cat­alyt­ic process­es that changed the com­plex­ion of our world to the bet­ter have been dis­cov­ered and com­mer­cial­ized, such as the Haber-Bosch Ammo­nia Syn­the­sis, Reform­ing, Cat­alyt­ic Crack­ing, Acid Catal­y­sis, Selec­tive Ammox­i­da­tion, Selec­tive Oxi­da­tion, and Exhaust Abate­ment Catal­y­sis. In today’s indus­tri­al­ized world, catal­y­sis is ubiq­ui­tous. Vir­tu­al­ly all man­u­fac­tured prod­ucts ben­e­fit by catal­y­sis some­where in the chain of their pro­duc­tion.

Oxi­da­tion catal­y­sis, which is the sub­ject of our 7th WCOC, com­mands a very key role. Name­ly, twen­ty five per­cent of the most impor­tant indus­tri­al organ­ic chem­i­cals and inter­me­di­ates are pro­duced by selec­tive het­ero­ge­neous oxi­da­tion catal­y­sis: these com­prise acrolein, acrylic acid, acry­loni­trile, methacrylic acid, male­ic anhy­dride, phthal­ic anhy­dride, eth­yl­ene oxide and propy­lene oxide.

Over the past fifty years great efforts have been expand­ed, by indus­tri­al, as well as, aca­d­e­m­ic researchers, to make selec­tive oxi­da­tion process­es and their cat­a­lysts ever more effi­cient and envi­ron­men­tal­ly friend­lier. The very term “selec­tive oxi­da­tion catal­y­sis” implies effi­cien­cy, preser­va­tion of mat­ter and envi­ron­men­tal respon­si­bil­i­ty. The recent­ly coined term “green chem­istry” has already been prac­ticed for the past fifty years by researchers active in the area of selec­tive oxi­da­tion catal­y­sis, and that with ever-greater prowess, par­tic­u­lar­ly as the fun­da­men­tal under­stand­ing of cat­a­lyst behav­ior on an atom­ic and mol­e­c­u­lar lev­el has con­tin­u­ous­ly improved and been refined; through the aid of sophis­ti­cat­ed spec­tro­scop­ic tech­niques.

In our upcom­ing 7th WCOC we con­tin­ue the tra­di­tion of the ear­li­er World Oxi­da­tion Con­gress­es by aim­ing to fur­ther expand the fun­da­men­tal knowl­edge, as well as, tech­no­log­i­cal progress achieved in the field of oxi­da­tion catal­y­sis in gen­er­al, and selec­tive oxi­da­tion in par­tic­u­lar, and to help lay the foun­da­tion for new research and imple­men­ta­tion in our cho­sen dis­ci­pline. The over­all theme of our con­gress is “From Fun­da­men­tals to Appli­ca­tions”.

We cor­dial­ly invite you to active­ly par­tic­i­pate in our meet­ing in St. Louis, the Gate­way to the West, in order to make our Con­gress anoth­er WCOC suc­cess!

High Sensitivity — Low Energy Ion Scattering (HS-LEI S)

[Ion-TOF Qtac 100]

 
The world’s most sen­si­tive spec­trom­e­ter for iden­ti­fy­ing sur­face atoms (top­most lay­er ~0.3nm), offer­ing a 3,000-fold improve­ment in sen­si­tiv­i­ty over con­ven­tion­al spec­trom­e­ters allow­ing for ele­men­tal 2-D sur­face map­ping and depth pro­fil­ing.

High Resolution — X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (HR-XPS)

[Scienta ESCA 300]

 
One of the world’s most pow­er­ful XPS sys­tems allow­ing for chem­i­cal analy­sis of the top 10–20 atom­ic lay­ers (~1–3nm).

These two sur­face ana­lyt­i­cal tech­niques com­ple­ment each oth­er well and the com­bi­na­tion of these two tech­niques allow for a very com­pre­hen­sive under­stand­ing of a material’s sur­face com­po­si­tion and chem­i­cal state, which is of par­tic­u­lar inter­est for cat­a­lysts, fuel cells, semi­con­duc­tors, LEDs, ceram­ics, etc.

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

[NT-MD T Solver NE XT]

 
In addi­tion to stan­dard sur­face topol­o­gy, the elec­tri­cal and mag­net­ic prop­er­ties can also be detailed with respect to a material’s sur­face.

Special Introductory Offer

 
One sam­ple will be accept­ed per com­pa­ny for a free explorato­ry analy­sis on the instru­ment of your choice and the data will be avail­able for dis­cus­sion dur­ing the sym­po­sium on June 20, 2013. Con­tact Dr. Robert Pafchek at pafchek@​lehigh.​edu to sub­mit your sam­ple in advance of the sym­po­sium.

 
Dear col­leagues, it is our plea­sure to announce the 1^st Inter­na­tion­al Sym­po­sium on Meso­porous Zeo­lites (ISMZ) to be held in the 246^th ACS Nation­al Meet­ing & Expo­si­tion, Sep­tem­ber 8–12, 2013, Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana, USA.

The sym­po­sium is intend­ed for build­ing a com­mu­ni­ty for the sci­en­tists and engi­neers involved in research, devel­op­ment, and uti­liza­tion of meso­porous zeo­lites, hier­ar­chi­cal zeo­lites, nano-zeo­lites, etc., from both acad­e­mia and indus­tries, to pro­mote open shar­ing inter­nal­ly and exter­nal­ly with the broad­er sci­en­tif­ic com­mu­ni­ty. The two-day pro­gram (exact date to be deter­mined) will be host­ed with­in the sem­i­nar ses­sions of the Divi­sion of Ener­gy and Fuels, which includes oral pre­sen­ta­tions (30–40 min for keynote speak­ers and 20–30 min for the rest) on any or all of the area involv­ing the prepa­ra­tion, char­ac­ter­i­za­tion, and appli­ca­tions of such mate­ri­als.

Abstract sub­mis­sion will be open between Feb. 1- Apr. 1, 2013 through abstracts​.acs​.org. Instruc­tions on how to sub­mit abstracts can be found here and the pre-print tem­plate here. Trav­el and accom­mo­da­tion infor­ma­tion is avail­able at www​.acs​.org.

If you have any ques­tion, please con­tact the sym­po­sium orga­niz­ers: ISMZ-Online, Prof. Javier Gar­­cia-Mar­tinez, or Dr. Kun­hao (Eric) Li. We sin­cere­ly wel­come you and look for­ward to meet­ing you this Fall.

Division of Energy and Fuels — American Chemical Society

 
246^thACS Nation­al Meet­ing & Expo­si­tion
Sep­tem­ber 8–12, 2013 ♦ Indi­anapo­lis, Indi­ana USA

Call for Papers

 
Sym­po­sium fea­tures research, devel­op­ment, and plan­ning on ener­gy con­ver­sion and fuel pro­duc­tion. Based on invi­ta­tion, inter­na­tion­al­ly rec­og­nized experts will rep­re­sent promis­ing research devel­op­ments of the next gen­er­a­tion of ener­gy and fuels. Top­ics include, but are not lim­it­ed to:

• Ener­gy Con­ver­sion, Stor­age and Uti­liza­tion
• Smart Grid Tech­nolo­gies
• Fuel Pro­duc­tion and Uti­liza­tion
• Advance­ments in Ener­­gy-relat­ed Mate­ri­als

Organizers

 
Prof. Xian­qin Wang
Depart­ment of Chem­i­cal, Bio­log­i­cal and Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal Engi­neer­ing
New Jer­sey Insti­tute of Tech­nol­o­gy
323 MLK Blvd., Uni­ver­si­ty Heights
Newark, NJ 07102–1982 USA
973–596‑5707
Xianqin@​NJIT.​EDU
 
Prof. Yun Hang Hu
Depart­ment of Mate­ri­als Sci­ence and Engi­neer­ing
Michi­gan Tech­no­log­i­cal Uni­ver­si­ty
Houghton, MI 49931 USA
906–487‑2261
YunHangh@​MTU.​EDU
 
Abstract and pre-print sub­mis­sion due date: 10 April 2013
Sub­mis­sion of both an abstract and a pre-print are required. Please do this on-line at abstracts​.acs​.org. Instruc­tions and pre-print tem­plate are avail­able at web​.anl​.gov/​P​C​S​/​E​N​F​L​/​p​r​e​p​r​i​n​t​i​n​f​o​.​h​tml.