CASTECH
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Cambridge
Department Name: Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Abstract
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Organisations
- University of Cambridge (Lead Research Organisation)
- QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST (Project Partner)
- Sasol Technology Research Laboratory (Project Partner)
- Robinson Brothers (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Borregaard (Norway) (Project Partner)
- Johnson Matthey (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Forestry Commission Research Agency (Project Partner)
Publications
Chen X
(2020)
Hydrogenation of benzoic acid to benzyl alcohol over Pt/SnO2
in Applied Catalysis A: General
D'Agostino C
(2018)
Inhibitory effect of oxygenated heterocyclic compounds in mesoporous catalytic materials: A pulsed-field gradient NMR diffusion study
in Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
D'Agostino C
(2017)
Increased Affinity of Small Gold Particles for Glycerol Oxidation over Au/TiO 2 Probed by NMR Relaxation Methods
in ACS Catalysis
McManus I
(2016)
Selective hydrogenation of halogenated arenes using porous manganese oxide (OMS-2) and platinum supported OMS-2 catalysts
in Faraday Discussions
D'Agostino C
(2016)
Solvent inhibition in the liquid-phase catalytic oxidation of 1,4-butanediol: understanding the catalyst behaviour from NMR relaxation time measurements
in Catalysis Science & Technology
Tan NY
(2015)
Probing hydrogen-bonding in binary liquid mixtures with terahertz time-domain spectroscopy: a comparison of Debye and absorption analysis.
in Physical chemistry chemical physics : PCCP
McManus I
(2015)
Effect of solvent on the hydrogenation of 4-phenyl-2-butanone over Pt based catalysts
in Journal of Catalysis
Description | There were 3 main project outputs from Cambridge in this collaborative project. (1) The development of T1-T2 magnetic resonance relaxation time measurements to characterise liquid phase adsorption processes in situ in catalytic systems (2) the development of an in situ catalytic reactor which could sit inside a superconducting magnet. Funding from other grants was used to supplement funding from the CASTech project to achieve this. The reactor can reach a temperature of 350 C and 30 bar. (3) The development of robust CFD simulation codes to predict air-water and air-hydrocarbon simulations in fixed-bed reactors. A single-phase flow code was also validated against MRI data. |
Exploitation Route | The industrial collaborator on this project is exploring ways of taking the relaxometry methods in-house. Further details are available from JM. We are working closely with a number of industrial partners to use the in situ reactor and relaxometry techniques to study heterogeneous catalytic processes. 4 companies are now sponsoring work associated with the in situ reactor capability. |
Sectors | Chemicals |
Description | The magnetic resonance relaxometry methods developed in this project now provide a robust screening tool for solvent selection and materials selection in catalysis. This was demonstrated in a satellite project (totally funded by industry) on a particular catalytic conversion. Added in 2019: The NMR relaxometry method developed in this project is now used widely by other researchers and as a screening and characterisation tool for molecule-surface interactions in many academic and industrial laboratories. |
First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
Sector | Chemicals |
Impact Types | Economic |