Invited Speakers to the 2008 Spring Symposium

The Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Spring Sym­po­sium will be held on May 22, 2008, at Clay­ton Hall, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware. The theme of the sym­po­sium will be Envi­ron­men­tal Catal­y­sis. The pro­gram and reg­is­tra­tion form is avail­able in our web site at catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org/​s​y​m​p​0​8​.​php.

Dead­line for ear­ly reg­is­tra­tion is May 8, 2008. The invit­ed speak­ers are:

  • Dr. Bob Far­rauto, BASF/Columbia Uni­ver­si­ty
  • Prof. Ray Gorte, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia
  • Prof. Harold Kung, North­west­ern Uni­ver­si­ty
  • Dr. Chuck Peden, PNNL
  • Prof. Fabio Ribeiro, Pur­due Uni­ver­si­ty
  • Prof. Chun­shan Song, Penn­syl­va­nia State Uni­ver­si­ty
  • Prof. Dion Vla­chos, Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
  • Dr. Andy Walk­er, John­son Matthey

Jingguang G. Chen is the winner of the 2008 Award for Excellence in Catalysis

Jing­guang G. Chen, LeClaire Pro­fes­sor of Chem­i­cal Engi­neer­ing and the direc­tor of Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware’s Cen­ter for Cat­alyt­ic Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy, has won the 2008 Award for Excel­lence in Catal­y­sis pre­sent­ed by the Catal­y­sis Soci­ety of Met­ro­pol­i­tan New York.

Chen is being rec­og­nized for his strong con­tri­bu­tions to the field of catal­y­sis. In par­tic­u­lar, his work to under­stand the phys­i­cal and chem­i­cal prop­er­ties of bimetal­lic and met­al car­bide sur­faces has inspired new appli­ca­tion to cat­alyt­ic and fuel cell process­es. Chen is also well known for his exper­tise in apply­ing advanced tech­niques such as NEXAFS to iden­ti­fy and char­ac­ter­ize reac­tive species in real world cat­a­lysts.

Chen is the cofounder and the prin­ci­pal inves­ti­ga­tor of the Syn­chro­tron Catal­y­sis Con­sor­tium (SCC) at the Nation­al Syn­chro­tron Light Source, Brookhaven Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry. He is a mem­ber of the board of direc­tors of the North Amer­i­can Catal­y­sis Soci­ety and also serves as the catal­y­sis sec­re­tary-gen­er­al of the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety.

The Excel­lence in Catal­y­sis Award lec­ture will take place in May 21st where Chen will also receive a plaque and cash award. For more details, vis­it www​.nyc​sweb​.org.

North American Meeting San Francisco, June 7–12, 2009

The orga­ni­za­tion of the 2009 NAM is pro­gress­ing on sched­ule. The meet­ing will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, locat­ed at the Embar­cadero water­front in San Fran­cis­co. The meet­ing co-chairs are Bruce Gates, Enrique Igle­sia, and Charles Wil­son. All avail­able details have been post­ed on the meet­ing web­site (www​.21nam​.org); inquiries should be direct­ed to nam21-​info@​pnl.​gov. The first cir­cu­lar will be mailed by the end of April 2008.

Catal­y­sis finds itself as the crit­i­cal dis­ci­pline as the world at large faces the chal­lenges of sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, clean ener­gy, and envi­ron­men­tal respon­si­bil­i­ty. The 2009 NAM will bring togeth­er lead­ing inter­na­tion­al researchers in catal­y­sis at a geo­graph­i­cal and his­tor­i­cal cross­roads between Asia and the world. Our aim is to pro­mote aca­d­e­m­ic and indus­tri­al con­nec­tions among emerg­ing and estab­lished com­mu­ni­ties of researchers and prac­ti­tion­ers of catal­y­sis in the world at large.

The planned ses­sion top­ics include:

  • Catal­y­sis for Ener­gy
  • Catal­y­sis for Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion
  • Catal­y­sis for the Syn­the­sis of Chem­i­cals
  • Fun­da­men­tals of Catal­y­sis
  • Chem­i­cal Reac­tion Engi­neer­ing

The time table is a fol­low:

  • August 1, 2008 — Call for papers and appli­ca­tions for Kokes Stu­dent Trav­el Awards
  • Novem­ber 15, 2008 — Dead­line for sub­mis­sion of abstracts and Kokes appli­ca­tions, to be made via the meet­ing web site
  • Feb­ru­ary 9, 2009 — Noti­fi­ca­tion of accept­ed abstracts for oral and poster pre­sen­ta­tions and award­ed Kokes grants
  • April 1, 2009 — Dead­line for ear­ly reg­is­tra­tion

2008 Graduate Student Poster Competition

When

Thurs­day, March 13, 2008 start­ing at 5:00 PM

Where

Hol­i­day Inn Select — Wilm­ing­ton (630 Naa­mans Road Clay­mont, DE 19703)

To enter

Send a short abstract of your pro­posed entry before March 2, 2008, to Michael A. Smith

Poster pre­sen­ters should also send their meal pref­er­ence to Carl Men­ning, indi­cat­ing they are a poster pre­sen­ter. Meal choic­es are:

  • Chick­en Cham­pagne
  • Roast Loin of Pork — Served with Sam Adams Beer and Onion Sauce
  • Pas­ta Pri­mav­era — Fresh Sea­son­al Veg­etable in a Light Blush Sauce

Rules

  • The com­pe­ti­tion is restrict­ed to grad­u­ate stu­dents only. Post-docs are wel­come to present their posters but are not eli­gi­ble for prizes.
  • All poster pre­sen­ters should be list­ed as the first author, and will be guests of the Catal­y­sis Club for the evening (one guest per poster).
  • Catal­y­sis Club mem­bers and guests will cast their votes for favorite poster; then a select pan­el of indus­tri­al judges will select the 5 best posters from the top vote get­ters above.
  • Total prizes award of $550 will be dis­trib­uted between the win­ners, $150 will go to the over­all win­ner and $100 each to the 4 oth­er win­ners.
  • The over­all win­ner will be invit­ed to present his or her work at the Catal­y­sis Club’s annu­al sym­po­sium on May 22, 2008.

Call for Nominations for The Catalysis Club of Philadelphia Award for 2008

Each year the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia rec­og­nizes a per­son, prefer­ably from the Philadel­phia area, who has made an out­stand­ing con­tri­bu­tion to the advance­ment of catal­y­sis. Such advance­ment can be sci­en­tif­ic, tech­no­log­i­cal, or in orga­ni­za­tion lead­er­ship. The award goes to an indi­vid­ual; no split Award to two or more per­sons will be giv­en. The Award con­sists of a plaque and a $1000.00 cash prize.

The entire nom­i­na­tion pack­age, includ­ing a resume and rec­om­men­da­tion let­ters, should not exceed 10 pages. The dead­line for the receipt of nom­i­na­tions is March 28, 2008. Pri­or nom­i­na­tion pack­ages sent in 2005 or lat­er will auto­mat­i­cal­ly be con­sid­ered for the 2008 Award.

Nom­i­na­tion let­ters along with sup­port­ing mate­ri­als should be emailed to:

Dr. Roger Grey
Research Advi­sor
Lyon­dell­Basell Indus­tries
3801 West Chester Pike
New­town Square, PA 19073
roger.​grey@​lyondellbasell.​com
FAX: 610–359-2434
Phone: 610–359-2286

NECZA 2007 Second Announcement and Call for Papers

Dear Zeo­lite and Porous Mate­r­i­al Enthu­si­asts,

A reminder that the North­East Cor­ri­dor Zeo­lite Asso­ci­a­tion will have its annu­al meet­ing on Fri­day, Decem­ber 7 at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia. Reg­is­tra­tion is now open and you may sub­mit an abstract by Novem­ber 23rd. We have a num­ber of con­firmed speak­ers (as part of our spe­cial recog­ni­tion of David Olson -see below), yet will chose addi­tion­al oral pre­sen­ta­tions from the sub­mit­ted abstracts. Of course, always room for posters.

2007 is the 10th anniver­sary of NECZA. For the past decade, our friend and col­league David Olson has been serv­ing as the local host for NECZA. He turned 70 ear­ly this year. We are ded­i­cat­ing the morn­ing ses­sion to David, cel­e­brat­ing his con­tri­bu­tions to mol­e­c­u­lar sieve sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy, and his long ser­vice to the zeo­lite com­mu­ni­ty. A few of David’s col­leagues from over the years have already agreed to speak. David is hon­ored. Oth­er par­ties inter­est­ed in giv­ing a talk or say­ing a few words about David at the ses­sion may con­tact the orga­niz­ers.

Details regard­ing reg­is­tra­tion, abstract sub­mis­sion and any­thing else we can think of are at www​.necza​.org.

Thanks and we look for­ward to see­ing you in Decem­ber!


Chris Cahill
2007 Chair

Haim­ing Liu
Co-Chair

Welcome to the 59th Season of the Catalysis Club of Philadelphia

Dear Col­leagues,

In 1949, a group of sev­en sci­en­tists (A. Farkas, F. G. Cia­pet­ta, R. Hans­ford, H. Heine­mann, R. Kennedy, K. A. Krieger and A. G. Oblad) gath­ered in Philadel­phia to dis­cuss the pos­si­bil­i­ty of hold­ing reg­u­lar meet­ings in the sci­ence of catal­y­sis. This was the begin­ning of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia; 59 years lat­er we con­tin­ue this tra­di­tion by meet­ing our fel­low sci­en­tists to dis­cuss the lat­est devel­op­ments in the field of catal­y­sis. On behalf of the exec­u­tive com­mit­tee, I wel­come you to the 59th sea­son of the Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia.

The 2007-08 Club offi­cers are:

  • Edrick Morales, Chair — Lyon­dell Chem­i­cal
  • Hai-Ying Chen, Chair-Elect — John­son Matthey
  • Roger Grey, Past Chair — Lyon­dell Chem­i­cal
  • Steve Har­ris, Trea­sur­er — Lyon­dell Chem­i­cal
  • Bjorn Mod­en, Sec­re­tary — Zeolyst Inter­na­tion­al
  • Joseph Fedeyko, Pro­gram Chair — John­son Matthey
  • Carl Men­ning, Arrange­ments Chair — Uni­ver­si­ty of Delaware
  • Haim­ing Liu, Direc­tor (Spon­sor­ship) — Arke­ma
  • Michael Smith, Direc­tor (Poster Ses­sion) — Vil­lano­va Uni­ver­sit
  • Qi Sun, Direc­tor (Mem­ber­ship) — Lyon­dell Chem­i­cal
  • Anne Gaffney, Rep­re­sen­ta­tive to NACS — ABB Lum­mus

The exec­u­tive com­mit­tee met this sum­mer to plan the activ­i­ties for the 2007-08 sea­son. These are the high­lights:

  • Pro­grams – The month­ly meet­ings will con­tin­ue, with our new for­mat fea­tur­ing a brief pre­sen­ta­tion by a local grad­u­ate stu­dent or post-doc and a lec­ture after din­ner. Pro­fes­sor John Vohs, Uni­ver­si­ty of Penn­syl­va­nia and recip­i­ent of the 2007 Catal­y­sis Club of Philadel­phia Award, is our first speak­er. The joint meet­ing with the Catal­y­sis Soci­ety of Met­ro­pol­i­tan New York will be held on Novem­ber 15 at the Bucks Coun­ty Sher­a­ton, Lang­horne, PA. For the sec­ond time, the annu­al stu­dent poster com­pe­ti­tion will be held on March 13, 2008.
  • Dues – Dues for the 2007-08 sea­son will con­tin­ue at $10.00 ($5.00 for the local club and $5.00 to the nation­al club). ; Dues for stu­dents will be $6.00. You can pay your dues to your com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tive, to our trea­sur­er (Steve Har­ris at stephen.​harris@​lyondell.​com) or at the month­ly meet­ings. A list of com­pa­ny rep­re­sen­ta­tives is avail­able at catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org/​c​o​m​p​R​e​p​.​php.
  • Din­ner Fees and Reser­va­tions – The cost of the din­ner will again be $30.00 for mem­bers, $15.00 for students/retirees and will include one drink dur­ing the social hour. After one drink, the bar will serve as a cash bar dur­ing the social hour. Walk-ins and non-mem­bers din­ner fees will be $35.00. We strong­ly encour­age advance reser­va­tions for the meet­ings. We can NOT guar­an­tee din­ner for a large num­ber of walk-ins. If you need to can­cel, please con­tact our Arrange­ments Chair, Carl Men­ning at menning@​udel.​edu, prefer­ably a week before the meet­ing or at your ear­li­est con­ve­nience. Please help us plan a bet­ter meet­ing by mak­ing advance reser­va­tions.
  • Com­mu­ni­ca­tions – If you would like to receive our month­ly announce­ments or need to update your con­tact infor­ma­tion, please con­tact our Mem­ber­ship Direc­tor, Qi Sun at qi.​sun@​lyondell.​com.
  • Web­site – Please vis­it our web­site to review this year’s activ­i­ties and oth­er events of inter­est. We recent­ly ini­ti­at­ed a cal­en­dar in our web site (catal​y​sis​clubphilly​.org/​c​a​l​e​n​d​a​r​.​php) to adver­tise events of inter­est to the local (NJ, NY, PA, DE and MD) catal­y­sis com­mu­ni­ty. To adver­tise your event, just email the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion to
    webmaster@​catalysisclubphilly.​org: start/end dates, title, brief descrip­tion of the event, con­tact email and web link.
  • Atten­dance – Please con­tin­ue to sup­port our Club, the old­est and one of the most active in the NACS, by attend­ing and invit­ing your col­leagues to our month­ly meet­ings.

I am look­ing for­ward to see­ing you at the Club month­ly meet­ings. Please feel free to con­tact me, or any of the oth­er offi­cers, through­out the year with any com­ments or sug­ges­tions for the Club.

Sin­cere­ly,

Edrick Morales
Chair
edrick.​morales@​lyondell.​com
610–359-2500