CHEMISTRY AND CATALYSIS TECHNOLOGY
cod. 18367

Academic year 2008/09
1° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Chimica industriale (CHIM/04)
Field
Discipline industriali
Type of training activity
Characterising
32 hours
of face-to-face activities
4 credits
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Learning objectives

<br />Catalysis is the key to efficient chemical processing. Catalysis is an interdisciplinary coherent subject, unified by concepts of chemical structure and reactivity, kinetics and transport phenomena.<br />It is the aim of the course to give an unitary understanding of the catalytic phenomena.

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Course unit content

<br />The following topics are developed:<br />Introduction, catalytic principles, definitions: TON, TOF.<br />Homogeneous catalysis with transition metal catalysts.<br />Biocatalysis. Industrial processes with biocatalysis.<br />Heterogeneous catalysis: fundamentals.<br />The importance of adsorption in heterogeneous catalysis, adsorption isotherms.<br />Mechanisms of heterogeneously catalyzed gas-phase reactions.<br />Energetic aspects of catalytic activity.<br />Electronic factors, steric effects.<br />Catalysis by metals, bimetallic catalysis.<br />Catalytic activity of semiconductors: chemisorption on semiconductors, reaction on semiconductors.<br />Insulators: acid and basic catalysts, surface acidity.<br />Catalyst performance. Promoters, catalyst deactivation, regeneration.<br />Catalyst poisoning, poisoning of metals, semiconductors and solid acids.<br />Shape-selective catalysis: zeolites.<br />Heterogeneously catalyzed processes in industry.<br />Economic importance of catalysts.<br /> 

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Bibliography

<br />Industrial Catalysis, a Practical Approach <br />J. Hagen<br />Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co<br />Principle and Practice of Heterogeneous Catalysis<br />J. M. Thomas, W. J. Thomas<br />VCH Verlagsgesellshaft mbH<br />Catalytic Chemistry<br />B. C. Gates<br />John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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