2008 Student Conference
Applied Catalysis: Towards Sustainable Chemical Industry
12 November 2008
University of Bath
Chair of the conference: Dr Alexei Lapkin (University of Bath).
Special Guest Speaker: Professor Jacob Moulijn (Delft University)
This event is organised to promote the best of current research in Applied Catalysis under a very wide remit of developing sustainable technologies. We invite current full-time PhD students to attend this event to share new advances, participate in discussions and to network.
Best Oral Presentation Prize: £500
Best Poster Prize: £250
Scientific Programme:
10:00 – 11:00 Registration, tea and coffee; time to put up posters (Venue - Wessex Restaurant)
11:00 – 11:05 Welcome, Housekeeping
11:05 – 11:30 Jamil Khan, University of Sheffield, ‘Aerobic Epoxidation of Alkenes with Manganese (III) Salen Complexes Immobilised onto Aminopropyl-HMS’<
11:30 – 11:55 Faiza Hassan, University of Birmingham, ‘Studies of ZSM-5 Catalyst Deactivation During 1-Hexene Isomerization in Supercritical Fluids’
11:55 – 12:20 Tamara Fanjul Solares, Bristol University, ‘Unexpected Coordination Modes of a Ditopic Xylenyl Diphosphine’
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch & Poster Session / Networking
13:30 – 14:15 ‘Multiphase Catalytic Reactors in Fine Chemistry; Rational Scale-up’, Professor Jacob Moulijn, University of Delft, The Netherlands
14:15 – 14:40 Cristian Spadoni, Johnson Matthey / University of Bath, ‘Palladium Nanoparticles Formation for Direct Synthesis of Hydrogen Peroxide from Perovskite Like Oxides’
14:40 – 15:05 Jonathan Hopewell, Bristol University, ‘Phospha-adamantane Cage Ligands: Their Resolution, Organometallic Chemistry and Applications in Catalysis’
15:00 – 15:45 Coffee / Poster Session / Networking
15:45 – 16:10 Panagiota Pimenidou, University of Leeds, ‘Unmixed Steam Reforming for Hydrogen Production of Oils of Biomass Origin: Sorbent Behaviour and Oil Characteristics’
16:10 – 16:35 Maria Sotenko, University of Bath, ‘Tandem Bio-Chemical Conversion Of Glycerol’
16:35 – 17:00 Fernando Cárdenas-Lizana, Heriot-Watt University, ‘Use of Gold Catalysts to Promote the Ultra-Selective Sustainable Production of Aromatic Amines’
17:00 – 17:30 Closing Remarks / Future Events
19:00 Dinner* (together with participants of ICP short course)
Summary of the Conference
The conference attracted over fifty external participants and, together with the participants of the "Industrial Catalytic Processes" course who joined the conference at lunch time, we had a full auditorium and had to use extra chairs for the talk of Professor Moulijn. The conference had a broad range of topics, but this was an advantage, as it allowed to students to see a wider spectrum of current research in the area of catalysis and applied catalysis and what are the important problems outside their own field of research.
Winner of the Best Lecture is Fernando Cárdenas-Lizana from Heriot-Watt University
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