Fuel Production with Heterogeneous Catalysis presents the groundbreaking discoveries, recent developments, and future perspectives of one of the most important areas of renewable energy research—the heterogeneous catalytic production of fuels. Comprised of chapters authored by leading experts in the field, this authoritative text:
- Focuses primarily on the state-of-the-art catalysts and catalytic processes anticipated to play a pivotal role in the production of fuels
- Describes production of fuels from renewable sources using environmentally friendly technologies
- Exposes the advantages and disadvantages of each production process
- Suggests solutions to minimize the impact of fuel transportation
- Conveys the importance of catalysis for the sustainable production of fuels
Fuel Production with Heterogeneous Catalysis delivers a comprehensive overview of the current state of the art of the heterogeneous catalytic production of fuels, providing reaction mechanism schemes, engineering solutions, valuable industry insights, and more.
Preface
Editor
Contributors
Solar Water Splitting Using Semiconductor Systems; Lorenzo Rovelli and K. Ravindranathan Thampi
Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution; Yusuke Yamada and Shunichi Fukuzumi
CO2 to Fuels; Atsushi Urakawa and Jacinto Sá
Methane Activation and Transformation over Nanocatalysts; Rajaram Bal and Ankur Bordoloi
Fischer–Tropsch: Fuel Production with Cobalt Catalysts; Cristina Paun, Jacinto Sá, and Kalala Jalama
Syngas to Methanol and Ethanol; Martin Muhler and Stefan Kaluza
Steam Reforming; Karin Föttinger
Biomass to Liquid Biofuels via Heterogeneous Catalysis; Michael Stöcker and Roman Tschentscher
Catalytic Pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass; K. Seshan
Recent Trends in the Purification of H2 Streams by Water–Gas Shift and PROX; A. Sepúlveda-Escribano and J. Silvestre-Albero
Index
Biography
Jacinto Sá is the Modern Heterogeneous Catalysis Group leader at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw. He received his M.Sc from the Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal, and his Ph.D from The University of Aberdeen, Scotland. His work in using accelerator-based light sources to diagnose the mechanisms by which important catalytic processes proceed, and in conventional ultrafast laser sources, make him one of the most experienced researchers in the world in this area. Widely published and respected, Dr. Sá received an R&D 100 Award for his work with the CenTACat Group, Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland.
"… gives a global vision of an important, emergent research issue. … To the best of my knowledge, no other books published so far cover all the main catalytic processes for fuel production."
—Eduardo J. Garcia-Suarez, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby