Catalytic seminar in Ostrava

The 1st Catalytic Seminar was held on Wednesday, February 7, at the Technical University of Ostrava. The seminar was attended by a number of researchers, doctoral and postdoctoral students from the UCT Prague, University of Pardubice, The Institute of Chemical Process Fundamentals of CAS, J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry and Technical University of Ostrava. The successful representatives of the Department of Petroleum Technology and Alternative Fuels at the seminar were the PhD students: Jaroslav Aubrecht with a presentation on "Initial steps in the study of hydrogenation of dimethyl adipate on CuZnAl catalysts", Violetta Pospelova with a presentation on "Preparation of a series of CuZn catalysts and comparison of their activity in hydrogenolysis of esters" and Bogdan Shumeiko with a presentation on "Catalytic hydrogenation of bio-oil" supervised by Dr. David Kubička. The seminar also included an excursion to the laboratories of the Institute of Environmental Technologies at the Technical University of Ostrava. We hope this meeting will become an annual tradition. The seminar was financially supported by the Ostrava branch of the Czech Chemical Society