Combinatorial Catalysis and High Throughput Catalyst Design and Testing

✍ Scribed by C. R. A. Catlow, C. M. Barker, R. G. Bell, S. T. Bromley, D. S. Coombes, F. Corá (auth.), Eric G. Derouane, Francisco Lemos, Avelino Corma, Fernando Ramõa Ribeiro (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 496
• Series: NATO Science Series 560
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Catalysts are central in modern industrial chemistry and there is an urgent need to develop new catalysts. Such a rapid pace of development brings with it a new set of challenges at all levels of research, from synthesis and characterization to testing and modelling.
This book reviews the current status of combinatorial catalysis, scientific catalyst design techniques, methods for preparing inorganic combinatorial libraries, experimental design methods, data processing, system modelling an simulation, and catalyst testing. The individual contributions reveal the development of high throughput catalyst design and test methods and identify the main challenges in the field, including new catalyst preparation techniques, rapid performance evaluation, and new microreactor configurations.
Readership: All those working in catalytic process analysis and development. The extensive review of catalysis principles is especially relevant for postgraduate students seeking to pursue studies in catalysis.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Computer Modelling of Catalysts and Catalysis....Pages 3-60
Quality Principles for Catalyst Testing during Process Development....Pages 61-98
In Situ Investigations of Catalysts and Catalytic Reaction Mechanisms....Pages 99-123
In Situ Investigations of Catalysts and Catalytic Reaction Mechanisms....Pages 125-143
Catalyst Deactivation....Pages 145-173
Modelling Complex Kinetic Systems....Pages 175-204
Modelling Complex Kinetic Systems....Pages 205-238
Catalytic Reaction and Reactor Engineering....Pages 239-281
Catalytic Reactor Engineering — Novel Concepts in Production and in Catalyst Testing....Pages 283-300
Design of Catalysts and Catalyst Libraries....Pages 301-335
Scale-Up of Catalytic Processes....Pages 337-361
Laboratory Reactors for Catalytic Gas-Solid Reactions....Pages 363-389
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Ionic Liquids — The Combinatorial Challenge....Pages 393-395
An Evolutionary Approach in Combinatorial Catalysis for Selection and Optimisation of Catalysts....Pages 397-399
Design and Testing Catalysts Prepared by Self-Propagating High-Temperature Synthesis....Pages 401-410
Mechanistic Study of Propylbenzenes Transformations Over Zeolite Catalysts....Pages 411-413
Potential of Gas Sensor System for High Throughput Screening of Combinatorial Catalysts....Pages 415-421
MO and MM Study of Homogeneous Propylene Polymerization with a Zirconocene Catalyst....Pages 423-427
Critical Influence of the Amorphous Silica-to-Cristobalite Phase Transition on the Performance of Mn/Na 2 WO 4 /SiO 2 Catalysts for the Oxidative Coupling of Methane....Pages 429-435
FTIR Imaging for Chemically Sensitive, High Throughput Analysis of Combinatorial Libraries....Pages 437-439
Front Matter....Pages 391-391
Hydrocracking on Bifunctional Zeolites: An Integrated Approach....Pages 441-446
Aging and Coke Depositing on Nanometer ZSM-5 Zeolite....Pages 447-450
Transformation of Propane over HZSM-5 Catalyst....Pages 451-455
Front Matter....Pages 457-457
A Catalyst is a Resilient Self-Assembly in Space and Time....Pages 459-465
Combinatorial Catalysis and High Throughput Catalyst Testing: Conclusions of the Workshop on “ High Throughput Catalytic Testing: Its Challenges ”....Pages 467-473
Combinatorial Catalysis and High Throughput Catalyst Testing: Conclusions of the Nato Advanced Study Institute....Pages 475-479
Back Matter....Pages 481-512

✦ Subjects

Physical Chemistry; Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Computer Applications in Chemistry