Preliminary Program subject to change
20012 Fundamentals of Environmental Catalysis I
OverviewThis session focuses on fundamentals of catalysis related to environmental applications.
Primary SponsorCatalysis and Reaction Engineering Division (20)

Chair

Panagiotis (Peter) Smirniotis
Professor
University of Cincinnati
Chemical & Materials Engineering Department
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0171
Phone Number: (513) 556-1474
Fax Number: (513) 556-3473
Email: panagiotis.smirniotis@uc.edu

CoChair

William Epling
Assistant Professor
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1
Canada
Phone Number: 519-888-4567
Email: wepling@cape.uwaterloo.ca
Interactions of Sulfur with High Surface Area Carbides and Nitrides
Maha R. Hammoud, University of Michigan, 2300 Hayward AVE, 3230 H. H. DOW Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2136 and Levi T. Thompson, Chemical Engineering, University of Michigan, 2300 Hayward St., Ann Arbor, MI 48109
Cleanup of Coal Gases by Removing Hydrogen Sulfide in the Form of Liquid Element Sulfur
Kyung C. Kwon1, Laneddye Carter2, Claudell Burnell3, Tara Johnson1, Tikia Allen4 and Robie Lewis5, (1)Chemical Engineering, Tuskegee University, 514 Engineering Building, University Ave, Tuskegee, AL 36088, (2)Chemical Engineering, Tuskegee University, 513 Engineering Buliding, University Avenue, Tuskegee, AL 36088, (3)Chemical Engineering, Tuskegee University, 513 Engineering Building, University Avenue, Tuskegee, AL 36088, (4)Chemical Engineering, Tuskegee University, Engineering Building, Tuskegee, AL 36088, (5)Gasification & Combustion Projects Division, National Energy Technology Laboratory
Titania-Based Nanocomposite Materials as Highly Active Photocatalysts
Gonghu Li1, Le Chen1, Shannon Ciston2, Tijana Rajh3 and Kimberly A. Gray1, (1)Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, (2)Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, (3)Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439
Polyols and Organic Acids Adsorption Onto Activated Carbon, and Its Role on Aqueous-Phase Catalytic Hydrogenation Rates
Lars Peereboom1, J. E. Jackson2, Yuqing Chen1, Ben Koenigsknecht1, Maggie Hunter1 and Dennis J. Miller3, (1)MSU Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, Engineering Building, East Lansing, MI 48824-1226, (2)Chemistry Department, Michigan State University, Chemistry building, East Lansing, MI 48824, (3)Michigan State University, 2527 Engineering Building, Department of Chemical Engineering & Material Science, East Lansing, MI 48824
Selection of an Efficient Catalyst for the Catalytic Wet Air Oxidation of Orange II: a Mono Azo Dye
Pinar Ozdural1, Jale F. Akyurtlu2, Mujde Erten-Unal1 and Ates Akyurtlu2, (1)Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA 23529, (2)Chemical Engineering, Hampton University, 168 Marshall Avenue, OLIN Engineering Building, Hampton, VA 23668
Impact of Electrode Surface Morphology on the Electrochemical Reduction Kinetics of Nitroaromatics and Cyclic Nitramines Mixtures
Matthew A. Petersen and Kenneth F. Reardon, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Colorado State University, 1370 Campus Delivery, Fort Collins, CO 80523
Electrocatalytic Dechlorination of 2-Chlorobiphenyl at a Palladium Modified Granular-Graphite-Packed Electrode
Yuanxiang Fang, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, US EPA/ ORISE, Cincinnati, OH 45268 and Souhail Al-Abed, National Risk Management Research Laboratory, US EPA, Cincinnati, OH 45268

Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Division