U.S.-Mexico Collaborative Research: The Sol-gel Processing and Characterization of Supported Metal Catalysts

这个美洲计划奖将资助一个合作社 研究项目，涉及溶胶-凝胶处理和 负载型金属催化剂的表征， 理查德·D博士杜兰大学的冈萨雷斯 里卡多·戈麦斯·罗梅罗和泰西·洛佩斯教授 自治城市大学的Goerne 墨西哥在伊斯塔帕拉帕。 本次提出的重点 将研究二氧化硅的溶胶-凝胶处理， 氧化铝。 新系列高表面积 催化剂，其中金属处于高度 将制备分散状态。 溶胶凝胶 加工将导致形成更多的 均相负载的金属催化剂， 更均匀的粒度分布。 的 溶胶-凝胶法制备的重整催化剂 有潜力与之竞争 工业催化剂的使用。 该合作研究项目将分享 杜兰大学的设施， 墨西哥 合成步骤和催化剂 将在杜兰大学进行表征研究 而催化研究将在墨西哥进行。

This Americas Program award will fund a cooperative research project, involving sol-gel processing and characterization of supported metal catalysts, between Dr. Richard D. Gonzalez of Tulane University and Professors Ricardo Gomez Romero and Tessy Lopez Goerne of the Autonomous Metropolitan University of Mexico at Iztapalapa. The focus of this proposed study will be on sol-gel processing of silica and alumina. A new series of high surface area catalysts in which the metal is in a highly dispersed state will be prepared. Sol-gel processing will lead to the formation of more homogenous-supported metal catalysts with a much more uniform distribution of particle sizes. The reforming catalysts prepared by sol-gel processing have the potential to compete favorably with industrial catalysts in use. This cooperative research project will share facilities available at Tulane University and Mexico. The synthetic procedures and catalyst characterization studies will be performed at Tulane while catalytic studies will be performed in Mexico.