That capability enables scientists to better understand, and design
more effective catalysts for the production of fuels and high value chemicals
Not exact matches
The understanding they build will facilitate the design of
more effective cerium - based
catalysts for diverse applications.
Gregoire and his colleagues have come up with a new way to hunt for the
catalysts, however, and it's much
more effective.
Researchers at the Loker Hydrocarbon Research Institute and Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, have developed a new
catalyst based on nickel oxide on magnesium oxide (NiO / MgO) that is
effective for the bi-reforming with steam and CO2 (combined steam and dry reforming) of methane as well as natural gas... Read
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Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas up to 300 times
more effective as an atmospheric warming
catalyst than carbon dioxide.
The bioinspired architecture allows precious metal
catalysts (white) to be strategically placed on the porous scaffold (gray) so that the catalytic reaction is much
more efficient and cost -
effective.
This allows
more effective pre-treatment of the raw emissions before they are converted further downstream in the
catalyst.