I-Corps: Assessment of Nanostructured Palladium on Carbon Catalysts

I-Corps：纳米结构钯在碳催化剂上的评估

• 批准号: 1237216
• 负责人: Martin Bakker
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Alabama Tuscaloosa
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237216&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Assessment; Nanostructured; Palladium; Carbon

This Innovation Corps project proposed a novel palladium-supported on porous carbon catalysts (PCC). PCCs account for approximately 1/3rd of the catalysts used in the $4.7 billion/year petrochemicals market. An innovative new PCC has been developed under a previous NSF award. Better utilization of expensive palladium coupled to improvements in the carbon support provide the foundation for decreases in the cost and enhancements in the performance of these key catalysts. The proposed program will evaluate the industry relevant properties of the catalysts. Preliminary market analysis and cost estimates of potential industry targets indicate that the cheaper cost and improved properties of this catalyst, coupled to low startup costs, excellent scalability, and potential for further catalyst upgrades, provide the basis for founding a competitive start up catalysis company. This hypothesis will be tested by the team to enable a Go/No Go decision to be made and to identify and develop the appropriate business plan.The project will have (4) major broader impacts: (1) lower costs and improved energy and materials efficiency in a significant fraction of the petrochemical and fine chemical industries. (2) the materials and methods developed will provide the foundation for significant improvements in automobile catalytic converters, decreasing cost and improving air quality, and in energy storage and utilization (3) develop skills in the graduate student and faculty member participating in transitioning pure and applied research from the laboratory into the market place (4) result in sharing of the curriculum content with other potential entrepreneurs within the institution.

该创新团队项目提出了一种新型的多孔碳载钯催化剂（PCC）。PCC约占47亿美元/年石化产品市场中使用的催化剂的1/3。一个创新的新的PCC已根据以前的NSF奖。更好地利用昂贵的钯，再加上碳载体的改进，为降低这些关键催化剂的成本和提高其性能提供了基础。该计划将评估催化剂的工业相关性能。对潜在工业目标的初步市场分析和成本估算表明，这种催化剂的成本更低，性能更好，再加上启动成本低，可扩展性好，催化剂进一步升级的潜力，为建立一个有竞争力的启动催化公司提供了基础。该项目将产生（4）更广泛的重大影响：（1）降低成本，提高石油化工和精细化工行业的能源和材料效率。(2)所开发的材料和方法将为汽车催化转化器的显著改进，降低成本和改善空气质量，以及能源储存和利用（3）发展研究生和教职员工参与从实验室到市场的纯应用研究的技能（4）结果是与机构内其他潜在的企业家分享课程内容。