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This book brings together highlights of a theme which is growing in interest: the creation of a sustainable society using catalysis as the main tool. Catalysts play key roles in the production of clean fuels, the conversion of waste and green raw materials into energy, clean combustion engines including control of NO, and soot production and reduction of greenhouse gases, production of clean water and of polymers, as well as reduction from polymers to monomers. Catalysts are also of prime importance in the developing H2 and syngas production technology, aimed at producing clean fuels for the coming decades. And catalysts can be recycled.
List of contents
Catalysis and the environment, R.A. van Santen; catalysts for renewable energy and chemicals, the thermal conversion of biomass, F. Janssen; fuel cells, J.A.R. van Veen; catalytic processes for high-quality transportation fuels, K.P. de Jong; oxidative coupling of methane and related reactions, J.H. Lunsford; methane utilization via synthesis gas generation - catalytic chemistry and technology, J.A. Lercher et al; towards catalysis in a sustainable fine chemical industry, L.A. Hulshof; catalytic combustion, J.W. Geus and A.J. van Dillen; water treatment by heterogeneous photocatalysis, J.-M. Herrmann; catalytical removing nitrate from water, K.-D. Vorlop and Y. Prusse; contribution of catalysis towards the reduction of atmospheric air pollution - CO2, CFCs, N2O, ozone, A.E. van Diepen et al; emission control from mobile sources - Otto and diesel engines, A.E. van Diepen et al; emission control from stationary sources, F. Janssen; polymers, back to chemical feedstocks, L.A.A. Schoen and L.C.E. Struik; deactivation, regeneration and recycling of hydroprocessing catalysts, S. Eijsbouts.
Summary
This work brings together highlights of a theme which is growing in interest: the creation of a sustainable society using catalysis as the main tool. It should be useful to chemists and technologists active in catalysis research and application, environmental specialists and students.
