Whether it be Ammonia synthesis to make fertilizer for agriculture in India, creating pharmaceuticals in New Jersey, synthesizing fuel from solar energy or converting waste to energy to power Masdar City; catalysis is the key to all these processes and more. In fact practically all the products used and taken for granted by modern societies depend on catalysts including:
- energy processing such as oil refining and automotive exhaust conversion,
- bulk chemical manufacture, including plastics and polymers
- fine chemicals,
- food processing,
- current and future clean, green fuels
- pharmaceuticals
- treatment of air and water pollution.
Catalysts are the ultimate facilitators of our modern and future lives generating over $1 trillion worth of products annually. As such catalytic research and development is imperative for academics and industrialists alike.
At the Centre for Nanoporous Materials (CNM) we have a specialist catalyst division dedicated to the study of catalytic systems. Originally founded by Prof K C Waugh at UMIST the catalysis component of CNM has over 70 years experience in the field of catalysis working both in industry with companies such as BP, Johnson Matthey and ICI as well as working academically - independently and in collaboration with Universities all over the world.
Whether it be identifying and fixing problems causing $Millions losses to chemical plants, developing new cleaner greener bio-fuels, identifying accurate reaction mechanisms for bulk chemical manufacture or simply testing catalytic behavior and efficiency of a new catalyst - Catalysis at CNM has had positive experiences in all these issues and more.
Number of participants
30 (early registration advised)
Registration deadline
12 March 2010