Deactivation pathways in methane upgrading catalysis

The abundance of methane has led to a strong interest to use methane as a feedstock in the chemical industry. One of the main challenges is the initial activation of the methane molecule. In this thesis, heterogeneous catalysts for two different methane conversion processes are investigated. Firstly, the deactivation of supported Ni catalysts...

Engineering of Metal Organic Framework Catalysts

The last few decades have witnessed the unprecedented explosion of a new research field built around Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs). MOFs are crystalline porous solids consisting of metal ions (also named clusters) coordinated to often rigid organic molecules (also called ligands) to form one- two-, or three- dimensional structures. This...

A catalysis-engineering approach to selective hydrogenation

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Fischer-Tropsch synthesis revisited; efficiency and selectivity benefits from imposing temporal and/or spatial structure in the reactor