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CHIM-F402

Catalyse

academic year
2024-2025

Course teacher(s)

Thierry VISART DE BOCARME (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

french

Course content

Definition of catalysis processes in catalysis major industrial glossary kinetic Catalytic activity and selectivity. comparison between homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis: application of the theory of the transition state, classification of catalysts, their preparation and characterization by spectroscopic method and conventional (TPD, TPR, TPO, TEM, XPS, AES, SIMS, IR), acidity basicity and surface structure of metal catalysts, physisorption and chemisorption precursor states, adsorption according to the Langmuir model, determination of specific surface area by BET, Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism, Eley-Rideal and Mars van Krevelen, large-scale examples: production of ammonia (Haber Bosch), synthesis gas (Fischer Tropsch), hydrodesulfurization, oxidation, biomass valorisation.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

to develop a basic knowledge of homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures

Other information

Contacts

Secretary of the service of Chemical Physics of Materials, Campus Plaine, Bat. A, local A.3.124 Aline Desantoine, 02/650.57.10

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Other

Other

Oral examination of ~40 minutes per student. A presentation of one topic in catalysis will have to be done and subject to evaluation

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