The superior goals of the course are to provide the students with an in-depth knowledge of designing, understanding and engineering of industrial heterogeneous catalytic processes. Using selected large-scale processes (ammonia, hydroprocessing) aspects like preparation of catalysts, kinetics, mass and heat transport phenomena, characterization, computational methods, reactor concepts/modeling and cost estimations will be discussed.
Læringsmål:
En studerende, der fuldt ud har opfyldt kursets mål, vil kunne:
Gain an overview on industrial heterogeneous catalytic processes and comparison to homogeneous/enzymatic catalysis
Face future challenges and opportunities for catalysis
Describe reaction by kinetics and derive a rate expression based on reaction mechanisms (elementary steps)
Estimate the influence of diffusion and reaction in a catalyst pellet, catalyst shape
Develop a molecular understanding using most effective characterization methods of catalysts
Use input from computational methods in catalysis
Choose the appropriate reactor design
Prepare flowsheets
Estimate costs of catalytic processes
Kursusindhold:
The course will face the future challenges in catalysis by practical examples from industrial ammonia synthesis and hydroprocessing and by giving basic and advanced understanding in topics like: kinetics and microkinetics, diffusion, reaction and mass transport restrictions, atomic understanding of catalysts, characterization of catalysts, computational methods in catalysis, reactor modeling, upscaling, process engineering, flow sheets, cost estimations. For each topic state-of-the art presentations from academia and industry will be given. The course will end with an excursion to Haldor Topsøe A/S.
