Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society (PCCS)

Pittsburgh-Cleveland Catalysis Society
Spring Meeting 2007

Program

 
Sunday, June 8th
5:30-7:00pm

Registration and Poster Session

7:00-9:30pm

 Dinner and Keynote Presentation

Catalysis for Clean Diesel Power,
Aleksey Yezerets, Cummins Inc 

Monday, June 9th

9:00-9:25am

Transport and Separation of Oxygen Using Electrochemical Membranes

James Landon and John Kitchin, NETL and Carnegie Mellon University

9:25-9:50am

Ab Initio Studies of Ceria-based Oxides for Direct Hydrocarbon Oxidation

Adam D. Mayernick and Michael J. Janik , Penn State

9:50-10:15am

Sulfur Tolerant Protective Coatings for Dense Metal Hydrogen Separation Membranes <

Casey O’Brien a,b, Andy Gellman a,b, Jim Miller a,b, Bryan Morreale b, Carnegie Mellon Universitya and National Energy Technology Laboratoryb

10:15-10:30am Coffee and Refreshment Break

10:30-10:55am

Selective adsorption desulfurization over Ti-Ce-Al-O metal oxide

Fuxia Sun , Xiaoliang Ma, Chunshan Song, Penn State

10:55am-12pm

Keynote Presentation

Solution Chemistry Toolkit for Designing Complex Nanoparticle Catalysts,

Raymond E. Schaak,  Department of Chemistry and Materials Research Institute, The Pennsylvania State University

12:00-1:15pm

Lunch (served in the Faculty Staff Club)

1:15-1:30pm Election of PCCS officers for 2008-2009

1:30-1:55pm

Interaction of S with Cu in H2S / H2 Environments:  A First-Principle Study

Nilay Inoglu and John R. Kitchin, Carnegie Mellon University

1:55-2:20pm

A first principles study of direct electrooxidation of aqueous borohydride on Au and Pt surfaces

Gholamreza Rostamikia and Michael J. Janik , Penn State

2:20-2:55pm

One Step Transformation from Polysaccharides to Liquid Fuels

Weiran Yang and Ayusman Sen, Penn State

2:55-3:10pm Coffee and Refreshments Break
3:10-3:35pm

Will Nitrided Graphite Reduce Oxygen to Water?: Predictions Using the Linear Gibbs Energy Relationship

Kiera A. Kurak and Alfred B. Anderson, Case Western Reserve University

3:35-4:00pm

Deposition and Characterization of PdxCu100-x Composition Spread Alloy Films (CSAFs)

D. Priyadarshini1, 2, J.B. Miller1,2, A.J. Gellman1,2, 1NETL, 2Carnegie Mellon University

4:00-4:25pm

Relating O adsorption on Pt(111) and Au(111) through electronic structure effects

Spencer D. Miller and John R. Kitchin, Carnegie Mellon University

4:25-4:45pm Presentation of student award

 

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