Novel Concepts in Catalysis and Chemical Reactors: Improving the Efficiency for the Future

Edited by an international team of highly experienced editors and authors from academia and industry, this ready reference focuses on how to enhance the efficiency of catalysts and reactors. As such, it treats such hot topics as zeolites, MOFs, catalysis at room temperature, biocatalysis, catalysis for sustainability, and process intensification. By including recent achievements and trends, the book provides an up–to–date insight into the most important developments in the field of industrial catalysis and chemical reactor engineering. In addition, several ways of improving efficiency, selectivity, activity and improved methods for scale–up, modeling and design are presented in a compact manner.

Spis treści:
Engineering Hierarchically Architectured Zeolites by Demetallation
Au Allows Catalysis at Room Temperature
The Fascinating Structure and the Potential of Metal Organic Frameworks (MOFs)
Enzymatic Catalysis Today and Tomorrow
The Wonderful World of Fenton Chemistry in Solid Catalyst Synthesis
Challenges in Catalysis for Sustainability
Catalytic Processing of Biomass into Chemicals
Structured Reactors, a Wealth of Opportunities
Zeolite Membranes in Catalysis: What is New and How Bright is the Future
Microstructures on Macroscale: Microchannel Reactors for Medium– and Large–Size Processes
Intensification of Heat Transfer in Chemical Reactors: Heat Exchanger Reactors
Reactors Using Alternative Energy Forms for Green Synthetic Routes, New Functional Products and Nanotechnology
Switching from Batch to Continuous Processing for Fine and Intermediate Scale Chemicals Manufacture
Progress in Methods for Identification of Micro– and Macroscale Physical Phenomena in Chemical Reactors: Improvements in Scale–Up of Chemical Reactors

Nota biograficzna:
Dr. Andrzej Cybulski is the Head of Department of Process Development in CHEMIPAN, the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He authored of 120 papers published in journals and presented at scientific conferences, co–author and co–editor of two books (two editions of "Structured Catalysts and Reactors"), author of 20 patents. He received the First and the Second awards from the Polish Association of Chemical Engineers for the implementing chemical technologies in pharmaceutical industries.
Prof. Jacob A. Moulijn is Emeritus Professor of Catalysis Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. He has been consultant of several companies and CTA for the United Nations in China from 1995–2000. Since 2007 he is Distinguished Research Professor at Cardiff University. He was the recipient of the NWO–STW ′Simon Stevin Meesterschap′ award (2000). He received a honorary doctorate of Abo University, Finland, 2005. His research interests include catalysis engineering, catalytic reactors, zeolitic membranes, kinetics, mass transfer, multiphase monolithic reactors, selective hydrogenation, selective oxidation, photo– and electro–catalysis. He is co–author of over 500 publications, co–author of two and (co–)editor of seven books. He supervised over 50 Ph.D. students.
Dr. Andrzej Stankiewicz is Professor of Process Intensification at Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. With 30 years of industrial and academic research experience, he is authoror co–author of ca. 100 papers on chemical reaction engineering, industrial catalysis and process intensification, and holds several patents in the field. He is Scientific Director of the Delft Research Center for Sustainable Industrial Processes, General Director of the European Process Intensification Center (EUROPIC) and Chairman of the Working Party on Process Intensification at the European Federation of Chemical Engineering.