Plenary/Keynote Speakers
Plenary Speakers
Jingguang Chen
Columbia University, President of NACS
“Tackling CO2 Issues by Chemical Conversion and by Reducing CO2 Emission”
Brent H. Shanks
Iowa State University
"Robust Strategies for the Development of Biobased Chemicals"
Jeffrey Rimer
University of Houston
"New Paradigms in the Design of Zeolite Catalysts"
Keynote Speakers
Henrik Rasmussen
Vice President Catalyst & Technol. Sales, Haldor Topsoe
"Renewable Fuels - Trends and Technology"
Dewayne Black
Sr. Fellow and Manager Innovation & Research, Phillips 66
"Research focus areas for innovation in the energy industry"
Kenneth M. Nicholas
University of Oklahoma
"Upgrading Renewable Oxygenates: Oxo-Metal Catalyzed Deoxygenation and Coupling of Alcohols"
Jeffery White
Oklahoma State University
"Brønsted Acid Site Heterogeneity and Concomitant Brønsted-Brønsted Synergies in Zeolites"