Parallel-screening equipment for advanced catalyst testing and process intensification

用于先进催化剂测试和工艺强化的平行筛选设备

• 批准号: EP/P001467/1
• 负责人: Graham Hutchings
• 金额: $ 111.37万
• 依托单位: CARDIFF UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2016 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FP001467%2F1
• 关键词: Parallel; screening; equipment; advanced; catalyst

Over the past two decades, manufacturers and end-users of catalysts have followed the lead of the pharmaceutical industry and moved increasingly to high-throughput methodologies in their development programmes. This transition has not generally been mirrored by academic research laboratories, where one-at-a-time testing still prevails (particularly in the UK), usually as part of an iterative cycle of catalyst preparation, characterisation and evaluation. However, with the availability of rapid and high-throughput techniques for the formulation and characterisation of solid materials, the rate of catalyst discovery in academic laboratories is now often determined by the rate of performance testing. In this project to procure, commission and operate a multi-bed catalyst screening reactor, we will address this missing link within the academic heterogeneous catalysis community in the UK.This new facility, which will be housed within the Cardiff Catalysis Institute (CCI), will enable the CCI and its wide network of academic and industrial collaborators to increase their productivity in the key areas of catalyst discovery and catalytic process optimisation. As the CCI is a major player within the UK Catalysis Hub, the facility will in effect be accessible to almost every UK academic group that is active in heterogeneous catalysis.The catalytic processes that will initially be targeted are those in which the CCI and the other members of the UK Catalysis Hub have already started to build capability:(i) Exhaust-gas aftertreatment and waste-heat recovery for vehicles running on diesel, petrol, blended or alternative fuels.(ii) Upgrading of variable sources of methane (such as shale gas, biogas and stranded natural gas) through selective oxidation, particularly to methanol and dimethyl ether.(iii) Transformation of biomass derivatives to fine chemicals and fuels.(iv) Oxidative dehydrogenation of alkanes to monomers and chemical intermediates by using greenhouse gases (such as CO2 and N2O) as soft oxidants.(v) Preferential oxidation for the specific removal of contaminants in the clean-up of feedstreams.(vi) Hydrogenation of CO or CO2 to hydrocarbons or oxygenates.With the diversity of feedstocks and operating conditions that these processes require, the catalyst screening equipment will be used in a campaign mode that will maximise the proportion of testing time in relation to downtime - when feeds will be changed, analytical equipment re-calibrated, new test protocols defined and benchmark tests carried out. The operation and servicing of the equipment will be overseen by a Project Manager, who will be part of a Management Board with responsibility for prioritising and allocating access to the facility.

在过去二十年中，催化剂的制造商和最终用户跟随制药业的步伐，在其开发方案中越来越多地采用高通量方法。学术研究实验室通常没有反映出这种转变，在这些实验室中，一次一次的测试仍然盛行（特别是在英国），通常作为催化剂制备，表征和评估的迭代循环的一部分。然而，随着快速和高通量技术用于固体材料的配制和表征的可用性，学术实验室中催化剂发现的速率现在通常由性能测试的速率决定。在这个项目中，采购，委托和操作多床催化剂筛选反应器，我们将解决这个缺失的环节在学术多相催化社区在英国。这个新的设施，这将是设在卡迪夫催化研究所（CCI），将使CCI及其广泛的学术和工业合作者网络能够提高他们在催化剂发现和催化工艺关键领域的生产力优化。由于CCI是英国催化中心的主要参与者，该设施实际上将向几乎所有活跃在多相催化领域的英国学术团体开放。最初的目标是CCI和英国催化中心的其他成员已经开始建立能力的催化过程：（i）使用柴油，汽油，混合或替代燃料的车辆的废气后处理和废热回收。(ii)通过选择性氧化，特别是甲醇和二甲醚，对各种甲烷来源（如页岩气、沼气和闲置天然气）进行升级。(iii)生物质衍生物向精细化学品和燃料的转化。(iv)通过使用温室气体（如CO2和N2 O）作为软氧化剂，烷烃氧化脱氢为单体和化学中间体。(v)优先氧化用于在进料流净化中特定去除污染物。(vi)将CO或CO2加氢为碳氢化合物或含氧化合物。由于这些工艺所需的原料和操作条件的多样性，催化剂筛选设备将在活动模式下使用，这将最大限度地提高与停机时间相关的测试时间比例-当进料改变时，分析设备重新校准，新的测试协议定义和基准测试进行。设备的操作和维修将由项目经理监督，项目经理将是管理委员会的一部分，负责优先考虑和分配设施的使用权。

项目成果

Reversible Growth of Gold Nanoparticles in the Low-Temperature Water-Gas Shift Reaction.

• DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.2c06504
• 发表时间: 2022-09-27
• 期刊: ACS NANO
• 影响因子: 17.1
• 作者: Carter, James H.;Abdel-Mageed, Ali M.;Zhou, Dan;Morgan, David J.;Liu, Xi;Bansmann, Joachim;Chen, Shilong;Behm, R. Jurgen;Hutchings, Graham J.
• 通讯作者: Hutchings, Graham J.

Methanol synthesis from CO2 and H2 using supported Pd alloy catalysts.

使用负载型 Pd 合金催化剂从 CO2 和 H2 合成甲醇。

• DOI: 10.1039/d2fd00119e
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Faraday discussions
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Lawes N