Achieving better chemistry faster through thermoelectric promotion of catalysis

这个联盟将克兰菲尔德大学的原始技术发明者、预试反应堆开发商(HEL有限公司)和可持续和可再生工艺设计/评估专家(火用有限公司)结合在一起，探索一种新的、新的和新兴的技术，称为热电促进催化(TEPOC)。本质上，TEPOC使用热电材料将温度梯度转换为塞贝克电压，从而增加催化剂颗粒中电子的电化学能量。这使催化活性提高了几十到几千倍。该机理的一般性表明，TEPOC可以应用于许多催化化学过程，以降低反应温度，提高反应速度，提高所需的选择性。利用热电效应来提高催化剂性能对化学工业具有潜在的广泛好处，无论是在效率节约方面，还是在使用以前无法实现的化学合成方面。

This consortium combines the original technology inventor in Cranfield University, with a pre-pilot reactor developer (HEL Ltd) and a sustainable and renewable process design/assessment specialist (Exergy Ltd) to explore a novel, new and emerging technology, called thermoelectric promotion of catalysis (TEPOC). In essence, TEPOC uses thermoelectric materials to transform a temperature gradient into a Seebeck voltage, which increases the electrochemical energy of the electrons in the catalyst particles. This improves the catalytic activity by several tens to several thousands of times. The generic nature of the mechanism suggests that TEPOC can be applied to many catalytic chemical processes to: reduce the reaction temperature, increase the reaction speed, improve the desired selectivity. The use of the thermoelectric effect to boost catalyst performance has potentially wide ranging benefits for the chemical industry in terms of both efficiency savings and enabling the use of chemical syntheses which have not previously been viable.