Principles and practice of heterogeneous catalysis. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Sir John M. Thomas and W.J. Thomas.
• Other Names: Thomas, J. M (John Meurig); Thomas, W. J
• Contents: Principles and Practice of Heterogeneous Catalysis; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Setting the Scene; 1.1 Prologue: Advances since the Early 1990s; 1.2 Introduction; 1.2.1 Selectivity of Catalysts; 1.3 Perspectives in Catalysis: Past, Present and Future; 1.3.1 Applied Catalysis since the 1940s; 1.3.2 Some Current Trends in Applied Catalysis; 1.3.2.1 Auto-Exhaust Catalysts; 1.3.2.2 Catalysts in Electrochemistry and Photoelectrochemistry; 1.3.2.3 Immobilized Metals; 1.3.2.4 Immobilized Enzymes and Cells: Present and Future; 1.3.2.5 Ribozymes; 1.4 Definition of Catalytic Activity. 1.4.1 Magnitude of Turnover Frequencies and Active Site Concentrations1.4.2 Volcano Plots; 1.4.3 Evolution of Important Concepts and Techniques in Heterogeneous Catalysis; 1.4.3.1 Mechanistic Insights from Isotopic Labelling; 1.4.3.2 Concepts from Organometallic Chemistry; 1.5 Key Advances in Recent Theoretical Treatments: Universability in Heterogeneous Catalysis; 1.5.1 Some Major Current Developments in Heterogeneous Catalysis; 1.6 Milestones Reached in Industrial Catalysis in the Twentieth Century, and Some Consequential Challenges; Problems; References; Further Reading. Chapter 2 The Fundamentals of Adsorption: Structural and Dynamical Considerations, Isotherms and Energetics2.1 Catalysis Must Always Be Preceded by Adsorption; 2.1.1 Physical Adsorption, Chemisorption and Precursor States; 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; 2.4.1 The Empirical Facts; 2.4.2 Information That Can Be Gleaned from Isotherms; 2.4.3 Adsorption Is Almost Invariably Exothermic; 2.5 Dynamical Considerations; 2.5.1 Residence Times; 2.5.2 Rates of Adsorption. 2.5.3 Applying Statistical Mechanics to Adsorption2.5.4 Adsorption Kinetics Can Often Be Represented by the Elovich Equation; 2.5.5 Rates of Desorption; 2.5.6 Applying Statistical Mechanics to Desorption; 2.5.7 Influence of a Precursor State on the Kinetics of Desorption; 2.6 Relating the Activation Energy to the Energy of Chemisorption. Universality in Heterogeneous Catalysis and the Brønsted-Evans-Polanyi (BEP) Relation; 2.6.1 Pareto-Optimal Catalysts; 2.7 Deriving Adsorption Isotherms from Kinetic Principles. 2.7.1 Using the Langmuir Isotherm to Estimate the Proportions of Non-dissociative and Associative Adsorption2.7.2 Other Adsorption Isotherms; 2.7.2.1 Henry's Adsorption Isotherm; 2.7.2.2 Freundlich Isotherm; 2.7.2.3 Temkin Isotherm; 2.7.2.4 Brunauer-Emmett-Teller Isotherm; 2.7.2.5 Developments from Polanyi's Adsorption Theory; 2.7.2.6 Kaganer's Isotherm and the DKR Equation; 2.7.2.7 Virial Equation of State; 2.8 Energetics of Adsorption; 2.8.1 Estimating the Binding Energies of Physically Adsorbed Species; 2.8.2 Binding Energies of Chemisorbed Species.
• Edition: Second, revised edition
• Publisher Details: Weinheim, Germany : Wiley - VCH
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxii, 767 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 541.395; Catalysis; Heterogeneous catalysis; Science; Catalysis; Heterogeneous catalysis; Science; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783527683789; 9783527683802; 3527683801
• Related ISBNs: 352768378X; 9783527314584; 352731458X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.; Note: Print version record.
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