Principles and Practice of Heterogeneous Catalysis.

Intro -- Related Titles -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Setting the Scene -- 1.1 Prologue: Advances since the Early 1990s -- 1.2 Introduction -- 1.3 Perspectives in Catalysis: Past, Present and Future -- 1.4 Definition of Catalytic Activity -- 1.5 Key Advances in Recent Theoretical Treatments: Universability in Heterogeneous Catalysis -- 1.6 Milestones Reached in Industrial Catalysis in the Twentieth Century, and Some Consequential Challenges -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2: The Fundamentals of Adsorption: Structural and Dynamical Considerations, Isotherms and Energetics -- 2.1 Catalysis Must Always Be Preceded by Adsorption -- 2.2 The Surfaces of Clean Solids are Sometimes Reconstructed -- 2.3 There Are Many Well-Defined Kinds of Ordered Adlayers -- 2.4 Adsorption Isotherms and Isobars -- 2.5 Dynamical Considerations -- 2.6 Relating the Activation Energy to the Energy of Chemisorption. Universality in Heterogeneous Catalysis and the Brønsted-Evans-Polanyi (BEP) Relation -- 2.7 Deriving Adsorption Isotherms from Kinetic Principles -- 2.8 Energetics of Adsorption -- 2.9 Mobility at Surfaces -- 2.10 Kinetics of Surface Reactions -- 2.11 Autocatalytic, Oscillatory and Complex Heterogeneous Reactions -- 2.12 Microkinetics: A Summary -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: The Characterization of Industrial and Model Solid Catalysts -- Part I: Characterization of Industrial Solid Catalysts -- 3.1 Non-invasive Methods Suitable for Studies Involving Catalytic Reactors -- Part II: Laboratory Characterization of Solid Catalysts -- 3.2 A Portfolio of Modern Methods: Introducing the Acronyms -- 3.3 Which Elements and Which Phases Are Present? -- 3.4 Probing Surfaces with IR, HREELS, AES and XPS -- 3.5 Ultraviolet-Visible and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy.

3.6 Structure and Crystallography of Surfaces: Nature of Ordered and Reconstructed Surfaces -- 3.7 Other Structural Techniques for Characterizing Bulk and Surfaces of Catalysts -- 3.8 A Miscellany of Other Procedures -- 3.9 Determining the Strength of Surface Bonds: Thermal and Other Temperature-Programmed Methods -- 3.10 Reflections on the Current Scene Pertaining In situ Methods of Studying Catalysts -- References -- Further Reading -- General -- Additional -- In situ Techniques -- Chapter 4: Porous Catalysts: Their Nature and Importance -- 4.1 Definitions and Introduction -- 4.2 Determination of Surface Area -- 4.3 Mercury Porosimetry -- 4.4 Wheeler's Semi-empirical Pore Model -- 4.5 Diffusion in Porous Catalysts -- 4.6 Chemical Reaction in Porous Catalyst Pellets -- References -- Further Reading -- Specific Books -- General -- Chapter 5: Solid State Chemical Aspects of Heterogeneous Catalysts -- 5.1 Recent Advances in Our Knowledge of Some Metal Catalysts: In Their Extended, Cluster or Nanoparticle States -- 5.2 Comments on the Catalytic Behaviour of Nanogold -- 5.3 Recent Advances in the Elucidation of Certain Metal-Oxide Catalysts -- 5.4 Atomic-Scale Edge Structures in Industrial-Style MoS2 Nanocatalysts -- 5.5 Open-Structure Catalysts: from 2D to 3D -- 5.6 Computational Approaches -- 5.7 A Chemist's Guide to the Electronic Structure of Solids and Their Surfaces -- 5.8 Key Advances in Recent Theoretical Treatments of Heterogeneous Catalysis -- 5.9 Selected Applications of DFT to Catalysis -- 5.10 Concluding Remarks Concerning DFT Calculations in Heterogeneous Catalysis -- References -- Key References Published Since the First Edition -- Seminal Books -- Monographs -- Book Chapters -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6: Poisoning, Promotion, Deactivation and Selectivity of Catalysts -- 6.1 Background -- 6.2 Catalyst Deactivation.

6.3 Some Modern Theories of Poisoning and Promotion -- References -- Further Reading -- General -- Studies of Model Surfaces -- Theory of Poisoning and Promotion -- Chapter 7: Catalytic Process Engineering -- Part I:1 Recent Advances in Reactor Design -- 7.1 Novel Operating Strategies -- Part II: Traditional Methods of Catalytic Process Engineering -- 7.2 Traditional Catalytic Reactors -- References -- General References for Part II -- General -- Kinetic Models -- Experimental Chemical Reactor Configurations -- Slurry Reactors -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8: Heterogeneous Catalysis: Examples, Case Histories and Current Trends -- 8.1 Synthesis of Methanol -- 8.2 Fischer-Tropsch Catalysis -- 8.3 Synthesis of Ammonia -- 8.4 Oxidation of Ammonia: Stepping Toward the Fertilizer Industry -- 8.5 In situ Catalytic Reaction and Separation -- 8.6 Automobile Exhaust Catalysts and the Catalytic Monolith -- 8.7 Photocatalytic Breakdown of Water and the Harnessing of Solar Energy -- 8.8 Catalytic Processes in the Petroleum Industry -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 9: Powering the Planet in a Sustainable Manner: Some of Tomorrow's Catalysts (Actual and Desired) and Key Catalytic Features Pertaining to Renewable Feedstocks, Green Chemistry and Clean Technology -- 9.1 Introduction -- Part I: Prospects, Practices and Principles of Generating Solar Fuels -- 9.2 Powering the Planet with Solar Fuel -- 9.3 Some Significant Advances in Photo-Assisted Water Splitting and Allied Phenomena -- 9.4 The Hydrogen Economy -- Part II: Current Practices in Powering the Planet and Producing Chemicals -- 9.5 Some of Tomorrow's Catalysts: Actual and Desired -- 9.6 A Biorefinery Capable of Producing Transportation Fuels and Commodity Chemicals that Starts with Metabolic Engineering and Ends with Inorganic Solid Catalysts.

9.7 Non-enzymatic Catalytic Processing of Biomass-Derived Raw Materials to Selected Chemical Products -- 9.8 Strategies for the Design of New Catalysts -- Part III: Thermochemical Cycles and High-Flux, Solar-Driven Conversions -- 9.9 Solar-Driven, Catalysed Thermochemical Reactions as Alternatives to Fossil-Fuel-Based Energy and Chemical Economies -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Further Reading -- Index -- EULA.

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