Appendix A
Workshop Agenda
The Changing Landscape of Hydrocarbon Feedstocks for Chemical Production Implications for Catalysis: A Workshop
March 7–8, 2016
National Academy of Sciences Building
2101 Constitution Avenue Northwest
Washington, DC 20418
March 7, 2016 (Lecture Room)
Open Session
8:45 am | Doors open |
9:00 am | Welcome and Introduction |
Alexis T. Bell (Chair), University of California, Berkeley | |
9:15 am | Overview of Shale Gas Boom and Its Impact on the Chemical Industry |
Mark Jones, The Dow Chemical Company | |
10:00 am | Implications for Catalysis |
Johannes Lercher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
10:45 am | Break |
11:15 am | Hydrocarbons to Chemicals and Fuels via Engineered Microbes |
Greg Stephanopoulos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
12:00 pm | Lunch on your own |
Session 1: Methane Catalysis
Chair: Johannes Lercher
1:00 pm | Is oxidative coupling the royal road for the valorization of methane to olefins? |
Reinhard Schomäcker, Technische Universität Berlin | |
1:45 pm | Instructions for Breakout Groups |
Johannes Lercher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
Group A - Methane to Syngas – Board Room | |
Speaker: Jan Lerou, Jan Lerou Consulting, LLC | |
Discussion Leader: Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos, Tufts University | |
Group B - Methane to Ethylene – Room 125 | |
Speaker: Bob Maughon, The Dow Chemical Company | |
Discussion Leader: Anne Gaffney, Idaho National Laboratory | |
Group C - Methane to Aromatics – Room 118 | |
Speaker: Israel Wachs, Lehigh University | |
Discussion Leader: Monty Alger, Pennsylvania State University | |
Group D - Methane to Methanol – Lecture Room | |
Speaker: Tobin Marks, Northwestern University | |
Discussion Leader: Karen Goldberg, University of Washington | |
3:45 pm | Break |
4:15 pm | Report back and discussion |
5:30 pm | Open session adjourn |
March 8, 2016 (Lecture Room)
Open Session
Session 2: Ethane/Propane Catalysis
Chair: Maria Flytzani-Stephanopoulos
8:15 am | Doors open |
8:30 am | History and State of the Art of Ethane and Propane Catalysis |
Jeffery Bricker, Honeywell UOP | |
9:15 am | Conversion of Methane and Light Alkanes to Chemicals Over Heterogeneous Catalysts: Lessons Learned from Experiment and Theory |
Alexis T. Bell (Chair), University of California, Berkeley | |
9:45 am | Homogeneous Catalysts for C-H Activation and Other Approaches to Shale Gas Utilization |
Shannon Stahl, University of Wisconsin–Madison | |
10:15 am | Break |
10:30 am | Instructions for Breakout Groups |
T. Brent Gunnoe, University of Virginia | |
Group A - Light Alkanes to Alkenes and Dienes – Board Room | |
Speaker: Angeliki Lemonidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece | |
Discussion Leader: Angela Belcher, Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
Group B - Light Alkanes to Aromatics – Room 125 | |
Speaker: Bruce Gates, University of California, Davis | |
Discussion Leader: Johannes Lercher, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | |
Group C - Emerging Opportunities for Novel Approaches to Natural Gas Conversion – Room 118 |
Speakers: | |
Biocatalysis: Mattheos A. G. Koffas, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | |
Electrocatalysis: Guido Pez, consultant | |
Discussion Leader: Monty Alger, Pennsylvania State University | |
Group D - Activation of Natural Gas Using Nontraditional Oxidants – Lecture Room | |
Speaker: Eric McFarland, University of California, Santa Barbara | |
Discussion Leader: Jim Stevens, The Dow Chemical Company (retired) | |
12:30 pm | Lunch on your own |
1:30 pm | Report back and discussion |
2:30 pm | Break |
Session 3: Environmental Impacts
Chair: Monty Alger
2:45 pm | Panel Discussions |
David Allen, The University of Texas at Austin | |
Richard Helling, The Dow Chemical Company | |
Bala Subramaniam, University of Kansas | |
Carl Mesters, Shell | |
Klaus Harth, Badische Anilin und Soda Fabrik (BASF) |
Session 4: Opportunities
Chair: Jim Stevens
4:30 pm | Workshop summary |
Alexis T. Bell (Chair), University of California, Berkeley | |
5:00 pm | Open discussion |
5:30 pm | Open session adjourn |