Applied Catalysis in Chemical Industry: Synthesis, Catalyst Design, and Evaluation
A special issue of Catalysts (ISSN 2073-4344). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Catalysis".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 31693
Special Issue Editors
Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; catalyst preparation; catalyst characterization; ammonia synthesis; cobalt catalysts; thermal analysis; sorption techniques; materials chemistry
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: heterogeneous catalysis; synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials; scale-up of catalytic materials production; water gas shift and hydrogen production
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Catalysis is very important in terms of sustainable development, energy production, environmental protection, food production, and water purification, among others. The practical importance of catalysis is due to the fact that almost 90% of the products of the chemical industry are produced by catalytic processes. The great economic and strategic importance of catalysis makes it a rapidly evolving field. In the face of the great challenges of the present day, the acquisition of fundamental knowledge about the structure and phenomena on catalysts’ surface as well as relationships between catalysts composition, synthesis method, properties, and their performance in industrial processes is essential. Research is still needed to improve existing catalysts or design new systems which may efficiently and selectively conduct a given reaction toward the desired product.
This Special Issue is devoted to the design and characterization of heterogeneous catalytic systems for industrial inorganic chemical processes. The aim is to collect the current state of knowledge, indicate areas requiring further research, and show the direction of ongoing development work. The main attention will be focused on comprehensive experimental studies of synthesis, characterization, and evaluation of catalyst performance in industrial processes such as, but not limited to, methane conversion, water–gas–shift reaction, ammonia synthesis, ammonia decomposition, carbon oxide methanation, selective catalytic reduction of nitrogen oxides, high-temperature N2O decomposition, and low-temperature N2O decomposition.
The scope also includes an investigation of catalysts under conditions close to the industrial ones, a comparison of the studied catalytic systems with the currently operating commercial systems, and a demonstration of the validity of their application in a given chemical process.
Dr. Magdalena Zybert
Dr. Katarzyna Antoniak-Jurak
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Industrial inorganic chemistry
- Nanomaterials
- Carbon nanomaterials
- Heterogeneous catalyst
- Catalyst synthesis
- Catalyst characterization
- Catalyst design
- Catalyst deactivation
- Thermodynamics and kinetics
- Modeling and simulation of catalytic reactors
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