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NSF Directorate for Engineering | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ( CB

NSF Directorate for Engineering | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ( CBET ) Chemical, Biochemical, and Biotechnology Systems Cluster Catalysis and Biocatalysis Program Director - George Antos - gantos @ nsf.gov. Broad Research Focus Areas

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NSF Directorate for Engineering | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems ( CB

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  1. NSF Directorate for Engineering | Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Chemical, Biochemical, and Biotechnology Systems Cluster Catalysis and Biocatalysis Program Director-George Antos-gantos@nsf.gov Broad Research Focus Areas Fundamental Science, Phenomena & Materials of Heterogeneous/Homogeneous Catalysis Biocatalysis Electrocatalysis Process Conversion Technologies to Produce Fuels, Chemicals, Materials Biorenewable Conversion 1

  2. FY 2009Proposals & Awards • Description Total Proposals Received (excluding HyBi) Unsolicited Awards HyBi EFRI Awards • CAREER (12 Proposals) • EaGER & GOALI • Workshops / Conferences • Supplements (REU, etc.) # of Awards 155 20 8 3 0 3 17 2

  3. Catalytic Kinetics and Mechanisms DFT-calculated structures Cr (R)-1 O Si simulated XANES experimental XANES 1.8 nm Susannah Scott - UC Santa Barbara Wenbin Lin - UNC at Chapel Hill Redesigning Cr/SiO2 polymerization catalysts Engineerable, uniform asymmetric catalysts based on metal-organic frameworks 3 CHE-0512495 CTS-0500489

  4. Nano Scale Characterization Inactive Active 4 nm Renu SharmaArizona State UniversityCTS-0508434 and 0625340 Peter A. Crozier, Renu Sharma & JimAdamsArizona State University Controlled growth of catalyst particles for CNT synthesis Activity variations in individual nanoparticles CTS-0306688 4

  5. Biocatalysis Bacterial Methanol Dehydrogenase/ Mediator Products Methanol e- e- e- ANODE Vadim Guliants University of Cincinnati Daniela Mainardi Louisiana Tech University Effects of surface curvature and confined nanoscale environment on biocatalytic activity Representation of methanol oxidation by bacteria Methanol Dehydrogenase (MDH) in fuel cell anode. CTS-0449046 CTS - 0403897 5

  6. Computational Catalysis/Fuel Cells CAREER: Simulation of Metal Nanoparticle Interactions with Doped Carbon Supports C. Heath Turner - University of AlabamaCBET-0747690 Development of a hands-on science exhibit at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, Alabama: “Fuel Cells and Fuel Cell Catalysis” [ Thousands of K-12 student visitors every month !!! ] 6

  7. Novel Materials / Syntheses C. Buddie MullinsUniversity of Texas at Austin Boris YakobsonWilliam Marsh Rice University Thin films of porous titania nanocolumns TEM of single column from film showing porosity Chiral symmetry, or helicity, defines all physical properties and controls the rate of self-assembly of carbon nanotubes. CBET-0731246 CBET-0553243 7

  8. Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation + Biomass conversion to fuels & chemicals + Inorganic and Biocatalysis 8 8

  9. Biofuel Production Alternatives Forest waste Lipids Sugarcane lignocellulose Fisher-Tropsch Jet Fuel gasification to “syngas” (CO + H2) methanol gases pyrolysis, fast or slow Corn stover Diesel bio-oil dissolution Switch-grass liquid phase processing Sugar/Starch Gasoline starch Corn grain saccharification lignin Heat/Power Ethanol butanol fermentation sugar thermal routes catalytic routes Alga hydrotreating biological routes Soy beans synthetic biology Biodiesel transesterfication 9

  10. Pl: M.Tsapatsis Co-PIs: A. Bhan, C. Floudas, L. Schmidt, D. VlachosEFRI-HyBi : Conversion of Biomass to Fuels using Molecular Sieve Catalysts and Millisecond Contact Time Reactors O2 + biomass Minnesota, Delaware, and Princeton Universities ethanedial biomass anaerobic digestion acetic acid Pt/Rh propanoic acid furfural methane Emerging interdisciplinary frontiers in heterogeneous catalysis, reaction engineering, materials design, systems integration, and energy are combined to develop a highly integrated, millisecond contact time reactor for the production of hydrocarbons from biomass feedstocks by rapidly and selectively reacting them to eliminate solid carbon formation and other undesired reactions. C3-C6 sugars & C9-C10 lignin monomers 14 18 12 16 ethanol Mesoporous zeolite Mesoporous zeolite synthetic fuel 10

  11. PI: P. Savage CoPIs: G. Keoleian, Z. Lin, S. Linic, A. MatzgerThe Science and Engineering ofMicroalgae Hydrothermal Processing OIL University of Michigan Objective 3: Microbial Routes for Converting Byproducts into Additional Biomass Objective 4: Systems Perspective: Life-Cycle Assessment & Process Design waste CO2 Microalgae Growth waste H2O Biomass Growth additional wet biomass bio-solids aqueous by-product Hydrothermal Liquefaction Hydrothermal Catalytic Upgrading hydrocarbons bio-oil components Objective 1: Kinetics, Products, Pathways, & Mechanisms Objective 2: Catalytic Science & Technology for Hydrothermal Upgrading Cartoon-level Simplified Process Overview for Algae Hydrothermal Liquefaction 11

  12. EFRI-HyBi: PI- B. Peyton CoPIs: R. Carlson, M. Smooke, G. Strobel, S. Strobel Fungal Processes for Direct Bioconversion of Cellulose to Hydrocarbons Task 1. Molecular Basis of Direct Biosynthetic Hydrocarbon Production – Genome annotation. Task 2. Detailed Metabolic Flux Analysis Modeling - Elementary mode and metabolic flux analysis to map experimentally measured myco-diesel fluxes onto intracellular reactions. Ax=b Combustion tests and modeling (Task 4) provides feedback to optimize metabolic engineering and bioreactor growth efforts (Tasks 2 and 3) Gliocladium roseum Task 3. Kinetic Parameters to Optimize Fungal Growth and Hydrocarbon Production – Fermentation experiments to quantitatively describe key metabolic rates and yields for scale-up. Task 4. Hydrocarbon Composition Analysis and Fuel Combustion Properties - Detailed model of myco-diesel flame structures and combustion testing for fuel. A collaboration of Montana State Univ and Yale University Project Vision - Develop fundamental engineering bioprocess knowledge for direct conversion of waste cellulose to produce a range of usable fuel hydrocarbons 12

  13. Next Opportunities for Catalysis & Biocatalysis Catalysis Science, especially utilizing biomass-derived feedstocks Fuels  Chemicals  Materials Photo- and Electro-chemical Catalysis Science Materials Fuel Cells C1 Chemistry and Catalysis Science Energy Storage Fuel Interconversion 13

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