Catalysis (Vol. 22)
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BOOK REVIEW
Catalysis (Vol. 22) J. J. Spivey, K. M. Dooley (eds). The Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2010, 328 pp, Hard-cover, ISBN 978-1-84755-963-0 (online)/978-1-84755-951-7 (print) Jinlong Gong
Published online: 25 January 2011 Ó Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011
Catalysis is a central part of chemistry and biology that interlocks these disciplines through its general importance for daily life. Heterogeneous catalysts play a pivotal role in a variety of industrial processes and technologies, particularly considering that there is an increasing demand to explore environmentally friendly and cost-effective methods of converting natural resources (e.g., biomass and other conventional reactants) into fuels, chemicals and energy. This Volume of Catalysis highlights major developments
J. Gong (&) Key Laboratory for Green Chemical Technology of MOE, School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, China e-mail: [email protected]
in these areas. Examples of topics include environmental and energy catalysis, acid/base catalysis, experimental methods, materials synthesis, and syngas conversion. The book is divided into six chapters, which can be read more or less independently of one another. Bion, Epron, and Duprez (University of Poitiers, France) review recent advances in bioethanol reforming, particularly as compared to conventional hydrocarbon reforming. Reforming of bio-derived ethanol is an essential element in an overall process to deliver hydrogen from renewable resources. The authors present several important differences between reforming of oxygenates such as ethanol and reforming of conventional hydrocarbons from kinetics and mechanism point of view. Subsequently, Schwank and Tadd (University of Michigan) examine a closely related reaction—catalytic reforming of liquid hydrocarbons, particularly for application to solid oxide fuel cells, which are being developed commercially for use as auxiliary power systems. They consider steam reforming, catalytic partial oxidation, and autothermal reforming, each of which has different challenges in terms of heat transfer, kinetics, and catalyst deactivation. Chapter three focuses on the use of spectroscopic methods to investigate reactions of interest in environmental catalysis. Meunier (CNRS, France) overviews spectrokinetic methods that have been employed in reactions such as NOx reduction using infrared spectroscopy. He shows that reaction steps and/or elusive reaction intermediates could be postulated by the observation of side-products and the reactivity of model compounds. Another example regarding the application of spectrokinetic methods involves the water gas shift reaction, an important reaction in the catalysis of fuel reforming for hydrogen production. The author further demonstrates how diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy
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(DRIFTS) can be combined with isotopic analysis to explore the dynamics of the active catalyst surface. Seshan (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
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