Summer School on Catalysis of Biomass

The summer school on catalysis of biomass is organized in the frame of the European project CASCATBEL CAScade deoxygenation process using tailored nanoCATalysts for the production of BiofuELs from lignocellullosic biomass. Topics to be covered include:

• Bio-oil upgrading by condensation reactions
• Thermocatalytic Routes for Biomass Conversion into Fuels
• Zeolite catalysis - transforming laboratory leads into industrial reality
• Biomass pyrolysis
• In-situ spectroscopic tools for monitoring catalytic biomass transformations
• Understanding the catalytic activity of microporous catalysts - computational approach
• Potential applications of hierarchical zeolites for the biomass conversion into advanced biofuels
• Biomass hydrothermal processing
• Characterization and properties of bio-oils produced from lignocellulose by pyrolysis and catalytic pyrolysis
• Development of HDO catalysts for bio-oil upgrading
• Advances in biofuels
• Catalytic deoxygenation of triglycerides