Collaborative Research in Heterogeneous Catalysis

该奖项支持圣母大学的Eduardo E. Wolf教授和智利大学化学工程系的Paulo Araya先生在多相催化方面的合作研究。这项工作将主要是利用巴黎圣母院开发的红外技术进行实验研究，以验证目前正在进行的理论工作。非均相催化剂用于加速化学反应。研究这些反应对石油和化学工业至关重要。红外光谱分析表明，催化剂的微观结构是决定催化剂对操作条件变化的动态响应的重要因素。催化表面的理论模型是由圣母大学的Araya先生与Wolf教授合作开发的。现在，为了验证这一点，我们将延长阿拉亚先生的逗留时间。这项工作将成为他在智利大学博士论文的一部分，并将成为在智利建立该领域研究小组的基础，该小组将发展和继续两国之间的合作。通过这种方式，这种支持将有助于实现“科学在发展中国家”项目的目标。

This award supports cooperative research in heterogeneous catalysis to be conducted by Prof. Eduardo E. Wolf of the University of Notre Dame and Mr. Paulo Araya of the Chemical Engineering Department of the University of Chile. The work will be mainly experimental studies using infrared techniques developed at Notre Dame to verify theoretical work now in progress. Heterogeneous catalysts are used to accelerate chemical reactions. Studying these reactions can be crucially important to the petroleum and chemical industries. Infrared spectroscopy has shown that the catalysts' microstructure is important in determining the dynamic response of the catalyst to changes in operating conditions. The theoretical models of catalytic surfaces have been developed by Mr. Araya at Notre Dame in collaboration with Prof. Wolf. Now the experimental work to verify them will be carried out by extending Mr. Araya's stay. This work will be part of his Ph.D. thesis at the University of Chile and will form the basis of beginning a research group in this area in Chile which will develop and continue the collaboration between the two countries. In this way this support will help fulfill the goals of the Science in Developing Countries program.