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Descripción
First day: Today’s most important industrial heterogeneous catalytic processes will be overviewed: fossil fuel reforming, ammonia synthesis, methanol synthesis, Fischer–Tropsch process, and fluid catalytic cracking. Likewise, current ammonia, methanol, and hydrogen economies and a brief history of emission control catalysis will be described. Thus, attendances will be able to understand the key role of catalysis in today’s energy, emission control, and chemical production challenges.
Second day: Will focus on understanding the fundamentals of heterogeneous catalysis. Hence, metallic bonding, primary metallic crystalline structures, and orientation of a surface or a crystal plane will be reviewed. Likewise, different surface restructuring behaviours such as surface relaxation, surface reconstruction, sintering, and adsorption will be presented. Afterwards, the concept of the catalytic surface along with catalytic activity and selectivity will be introduced. In this regards, structure and crystalline phase dependent catalytic reactions along with the role of both support and promotor will be considered. Finally, the main reasons for catalyst deactivation such as crystal phase change, sintering, active phase lost, poisoning, and coke formation will be discussed.
