OF50 Meeting Pressure and Temperature Gaps: Fast Operando FTIR-MS Measurements - From Surface Areas to Steady State Isotope Transient Kinetics

Thursday, June 9, 2011: 8:20 AM
Ambassador Ballroom 3 (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Yong Yang1, Charles A. Mims2, Charles H.F. Peden3, Donghai Mei3, Younan Xia4 and Charles T. Campbell5, (1)Department of Chemistry and Institute for Interfacial Catalysis, University of Washington and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (2)Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, (3)Institute for Interfacial Catalysis, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, (4)Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, (5)Chemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
A so far unique micro flow reactor was developed for operando catalytic reaction mechanisms and kinetic parameters studies by employing transmission FTIR and mass spectrometric detection.  Directly under simulated real industrial conditions, it simultaneously investigates surface species and reactor effluent using a transient kinetic analysis (TKA) approach.

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