Atomic Scale Catalytic Property Tuning and Kinetic Insights for Innovative Catalytic Conversion of Fuels and Oxygenates

拟议的研究计划寻求高效和环境友好的催化技术，将替代资源化学转化为燃料和化学品。这是多伦多大学新成立的催化研究实验室--创新催化科学多学科实验室的核心研究项目。该计划引入了一种综合和多学科的研究战略，将表面科学、反应工程、材料发现、动力学建模和微反应器技术等不同领域统一起来。通过将原子尺度的创新材料设计与化学工艺强化的策略相结合，该策略能够在纳米尺度和宏观长度尺度上同时进行工艺优化。严格的优化预计将导致转换可再生资源的新处理战略，其可行性目前在很大程度上受到工艺效率的限制。根据该计划开发的催化加工战略将提供创新的解决方案，以应对能源领域的重大挑战之一。该研究计划旨在跨学科环境中进行，高度重视培养下一代科学家、工程师和新兴领导者。这些人将接受创造性思维和解决问题的培训，同时获得化学工程和材料设计各个学科领域的高度专业化技能，从而为他们未来在加拿大能源、石化、咨询、半导体、制药和制造行业的各种行业的工作做好准备。

The proposed research program seeks highly efficient and environmentally benign catalytic technology for chemical conversions of alternative resources into fuels and chemicals. This is a core research program of the newly established catalysis research lab, the Multidisciplinary Laboratory for Innovative Catalytic Science, at the University of Toronto. The program introduces a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary research strategy that unifies the diverse fields of surface science, reaction engineering, materials discovery, kinetic modeling, and microreactor technology. This strategy enables a simultaneous process optimization across the nanoscopic and macroscopic length scales by combining innovative materials design at the atomic scale together with strategies in chemical process intensification. The rigorous optimization is expected to lead to novel processing strategies for converting renewable resources, the feasibility of which is currently limited largely by the process efficiencies. The catalytic processing strategies developed from this program will provide innovative solution to address one of the grand challenges in energy. The research program is designed to carry out in an inter-disciplinary environment that places strong emphasis on nurturing next generation scientists, engineers, and emerging leaders. These individuals will be trained to think and solve problems creatively while acquiring the highly specialized technical skill sets across the various subject areas of chemical engineering and materials design, thus preparing them for their future endeavor in the diverse Canadian industries in the energy, petrochemical, consulting, semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing sectors.