The application of elaborately designed magnetic catalysts has long been limited to ease their separation from the products only. In this paper, we for the first time employed a magnetic sulphonated poly(styrene-divinylbenzene) resin catalyst on a magnetically stabilized-bed (MSB) reactor to enhance the etherification of fluidized catalytic cracking (FCC) light gasoline, one of the most importa...

Fluid-mediated interaction between catalyst particles alone issho wn to yield severul interesting and significant phenomena in a catalytic reactor that have been generally attributed in the past to direct interaction between particles. Thus, collaborative interaction between particles and the fluid may enhance or abate steady-state multiplicity, and reverse stability behavior. From the simple s...

A flow trough type catalytic reactor system was adequately modified for NO related catalytic and adsorption measurements, including the on-line connection of a digital chemiluminescent NO-NOx analyzer to the reactor outlet system. Moreover, we have largely completed the installation of an FTIR coupled catalytic system containing a HTEC cell for high temperature DRIFT studies. Three different ba...

The catalytic combustion of methane/air mixtures is investigated experimentally and numerically at gas turbine relevant conditions (inlet temperatures up to 873 K, pressures up to 15 bar and spatial velocities up to 3 × 106 h−1). Experiments are performed in a sub-scale test rig, consisting of a metallic honeycomb structure with alternately coated (Pd-based catalyst) channels. Simulations are c...

This paper reports on the design of novel reactor for low-temperature growth of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes (VACNTs). Two mechanisms for selective heating catalytic nanoparticles were investigated: (i) a heating from exothermic reaction of catalytic oxidation and (ii) an induction heating. The requirements for efficient induction heating catalytic particles of size varying from micron t...

Visualizing and measuring the gas distribution in close proximity to a working catalyst is crucial for understanding how the catalytic activity depends on the structure of the catalyst. However, existing methods are not able to fully determine the gas distribution during a catalytic process. Here we report on how the distribution of a gas during a catalytic reaction can be imaged in situ with h...

Scaling-up and -down of conventional ideal lab-scale catalytic reactors often introduces strong nonidealities in the flow field which may drastically affect the expected reactor performances and effectiveness. Computational fluid-dynamic (CFD) analysis is required to assess the extent of such nonidealities. In the case of reactive systems, and in particular in the case of heterogeneous catalyti...

the effects of confinement in carbon nanotubes on fischer-tropsch (ft) activity, selectivity and lifetime of carbon nanotubes (cnts) supported iron catalysts are reported. a method was developed to control the position of the catalytic sites on either inner or outer surface of carbon nanotubes. tem analyses revealed that more than 80% of iron oxide particles can be controlled to be positioned a...