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，用于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计划。该计划介绍了一个全面的多学科研究战略，统一了表面科学，反应工程，材料发现，动力学建模和微反应器技术的各个领域。这种策略通过将原子尺度上的创新材料设计与化学过程强化策略相结合，实现了纳米级和宏观长度尺度上的同时过程优化。严格的优化预计将导致新的处理策略，用于转换可再生资源，其可行性目前主要受到工艺效率的限制。从该计划开发的催化处理策略将提供创新的解决方案，以解决能源的重大挑战之一。该研究计划旨在在一个跨学科的环境中进行，该环境非常重视培养下一代科学家，工程师和新兴领导者。这些人将接受培训，创造性地思考和解决问题，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的技术技能，从而为他们未来在加拿大能源，石化，咨询，半导体，制药和制造业等不同行业的奋进做好准备。

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.