Catalyst Manufacture

by Alvin B. Stiles

Overview

This work provides a practical, step-by-step guide to the preparation, production and operation of all commercially used catalysts, taking into account general safety considerations and up-to-date regulations from the Occupational Health Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency. This second edition contains updated and expanded material on the regeneration, reactivity and recovery of used catalysts; problems related to environmental catalysis; a unique CO oxidation catalyst; and more.;This work is intended for chemical, plant, automotive, petroleum, fuel and design engineers; and upper-level graduate and graduate students in these disciplines.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351462280
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	04/04/2019
Series:	Chemical Industries
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	312
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Stiles, Alvin B.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Equipment: scope and goals; catalysts prepared by precipitation; solution and slurry transfer; filtration; drying - containers, trays, and other drying auxiliaries; calcining; rewashing and ion exchange; densification of calcined and ion-exchanged catalytic material; pulverization, pilling, and extrusion; spray drying; crushing and screening to produce granules; coating (not impregnation); impregnation to orient the coating material to the support. Part 2 Operating procedures: petroleum processing catalysts; catalysts for synthesis gas processing; ammonia synthesis catalysts; methanol synthesis catalysts; hydrogenation catalysts; dehydrogenation catalysts; oxidation catalysts; ammoxidation - synthesis of acrylonitrile from ammonia and propylene; oxychlorinations or oxyhydrochlorinations; vinyl acetate synthesis from ethylene and acetic anhydride; supported precious metals catalysts; palladium on powdered carbon; enantioselective catalysts; polymerization catalysts; dehydration catalysts; the claus process catalysts; preparation of automotive exhaust catalysts; Appendix: catalyst metals values reclaimers.

Editorial Reviews

...a useful reference to industrial chemists and chemical engineers, or anyone else, seeking to prepare large quantities of catalysts for pilot plant studies or for commercialization.

Journal of the American Chemical Society

...should be read with profit by those in academia who are thereby given a valuable...tour of an aspect of industry where the doors are normally closed to them.

Chemistry and Industry

A step-by-step guide to the preparation, production, and operation of all the commercially used catalysts. Brings practicing catalysts up to date on the latest manufacturing procedures and compositions, and on the use, discharge, and disposal requirements and recommendations of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Act. Among the topics are the new types of zeolites and their applications that have been developed since the first edition a decade ago; the regeneration, reactivation, and recovery of used catalysts; a unique CO oxidation catalyst; problems with the noise level of catalyst manufacturing operations; and the production of homologues in chiral mixtures. Includes a list of catalyst metals values reclaimers in the US and other countries. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"Praise for the first edition. . . . . .a useful reference to industrial chemists and chemical engineers, or anyone else, seeking to prepare large quantities of catalysts for pilot plant studies or for commercialization. "
—-Journal of the American Chemical Society
". . .should be read with profit by those in academia who are thereby given a valuable. . .tour of an aspect of industry where the doors are normally closed to them. "
—-Chemistry and Industry

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