US-Germany Cooperative Research: International - Tuning Phase Behavior for Optimizing Heterogeneous Catalyzed Reactions in Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

0233299 Eckert该奖项支持PI，一名初级教员，以及一名来自格鲁吉亚理工学院的研究生，与德国斯图加特大学化学技术研究所的Roger Glaeser合作。 德国和美国研究小组的共同努力将集中在更好地预测气体、超临界流体和液体的相行为上。 他们将把对相行为的新理解应用于提高高压下多相催化反应的速率和选择性，特别是那些涉及超临界流体的反应。 目前许多关于催化反应的实验缺乏关于存在的相的数量、反应期间存在的相以及反应是否受速率或传质限制的信息。 目前的工作将描绘相边界和反应条件，使有意义的研究在高压下的多相催化反应。该项目也有一个教育目标。 该项目将使研究生和初级教师参与受益于在另一个国家进行研究。 他们将培养对周围世界的高度赞赏，同时也学习重要的新技术技能。

0233299EckertThis award supports the PI, a junior faculty member, and a graduate student from Georgia Tech in a collaboration with Roger Glaeser of the Institute for Chemical Technology at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. The combined efforts of the German and US groups will focus on making better predictions of phase behavior of gases, supercritical fluids, and liquids. They will apply the new understanding of phase behavior to the improvement of rates and selectivities in heterogeneous catalyzed reactions at elevated pressures, especially those involving supercritical fluids. Many current experiments on catalyzed reactions lack information on the number of phases present, which phase is present during the reaction, and whether reactions are rate or mass-transfer limited. The present work will delineate both phase boundaries and reaction conditions to enable meaningful studies of heterogeneous catalyzed reactions at elevated pressures.The project also has an educational objective. The project will allow the graduate students and junior faculty involved to benefit from performing research in another country. They will develop a heightened appreciation of the world around them while also learning important new technical skills.