Catalysis - Volume 20

There is an increasing challenge for chemical industry and research institutions to find cost-efficient and environmentally sound methods of converting natural resources into fuels chemicals and energy. Catalysts are essential to these processes and the Catalysis Specialist Periodical Report series serves to highlight major developments in this area. This series provides systematic and detailed reviews of topics of interest to scientists and engineers in the catalysis field. The coverage includes all major areas of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis and also specific applications of catalysis such as NOx control kinetics and experimental techniques such as microcalorimetry. Each chapter is compiled by recognised experts within their specialist fields and provides a summary of the current literature. This series will be of interest to all those in academia and industry who need an up-to-date critical analysis and summary of catalysis research and applications. Catalysis will be of interest to anyone working in academia and industry that needs an up-to-date critical analysis and summary of catalysis research and applications.Table of ContentChapter 1: Fischer-Tropsch synthesis on cobalt catalysts: the effect of water; Chapter 2: Catalytic strategies for improving specific fuel properties; Chapter 3: Advances in catalysis and processes for hydrogen production from ethanol reforming; Chapter 4: A CO and H2 space time yield comparison of recent literature on methanol decomposition; Chapter 5: Low temperature water-gas shift catalysts; Chapter 6: Chemical mapping of chemical conversion in heterogeneous catalytic reactors using MRI; Chapter 7: Mechanistic studies of electrocatalytic reactions; Chapter 8: Non-precious metal oxygen reduction catalysts for PEM fuel cells; Chapter 9: Nano-architecture and reactivity of Titania catalytic materials. Quasi-1D nanostructuresBiographical NoteProfessor Spivey is the McLaurin Shivers Professor of Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University and Director of the DOE Energy Frontier Research Center at LSU. Professor Spivey's research interests include the application of the principles of heterogeneous catalysis to catalytic combustion, control of sulfur and nitrogen oxides from combustion processes, acid/base catalysis (e.g., for condensation reactions), hydrocarbon synthesis, and the study of catalyst deactivation.