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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. <em>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.
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Series: NATO Science Series 560
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Year: 2,000
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Edition: 1
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Pages: 512
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Pages In File: 496
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Language: English
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Identifier: 978-0-7923-6628-7,978-94-011-4329-5
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Doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-4329-5
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Org File Size: 32,876,040
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Extension: pdf
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Physical Chemistry
Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
Computer Applications in Chemistry
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Toc: 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 Cataly