Stable catalytic materials for emerging energy conversion technologies and greenhouse gas mitigation

用于新兴能源转换技术和温室气体减排的稳定催化材料

• 批准号: 478979-2015
• 负责人: Hayes, Robert
• 金额: $ 14.1万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Strategic Projects - Group
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=641878
• 关键词: Stable; catalytic; materials; emerging; energy

More than 95% by volume of all products are synthesized by means of catalysis, and as we are entering a world transitioning to alternative energy resources, the key to sustainable development will be to enable such transformations. Catalysts dramatically reduce energy requirements by enabling processes on practical time scales (seconds versus hundreds of years) and they allow target productions with significantly reduced waste generation. Ideally, a catalyst lifetime in a production line should be infinite, but catalysts suffer from deactivation and require frequent replacements. Many of them contain expensive noble metals, and the deactivation compromises economic benefits and increases energy consumption. Our project combines efforts from chemists, materials and chemical engineers to develop a universal strategy for stable catalyst development for real-world applications. With this strategy we will be able to maintain fresh-like properties of active components in catalysts for prolonged periods of time, which translates into an order of magnitude improvement in the production efficiency in terms of reaction rates and decreased energy input. The strategy to be developed is intended to be universal for a wide range of existing and emerging processes, but in the short term we will address i) the emerging technology for CO2 valorization without preliminary costly separation for the ultimate production of ultra-clean alternative fuels and value-added products, and ii) currently economically challenged exhaust treatment system in natural gas vehicles. Both technologies will lead to significant greenhouse gases emission reduction and enable the transition to alternative fuels, such as biogas or waste-derived advanced biofuels.

超过 95% 的产品是通过催化合成的，随着我们正在进入一个向替代能源过渡的世界，可持续发展的关键将是实现这种转变。催化剂通过在实际时间尺度（几秒而不是数百年）内实现过程来显着降低能源需求，并且它们可以在显着减少废物产生的情况下实现目标生产。理想情况下，生产线中的催化剂寿命应该是无限的，但催化剂会失活并需要频繁更换。其中许多含有昂贵的贵金属，失活会损害经济效益并增加能源消耗。我们的项目结合了化学家、材料和化学工程师的努力，为实际应用开发稳定的催化剂开发通用策略。通过这一策略，我们将能够长时间保持催化剂中活性成分的新鲜特性，这意味着在反应速率和减少能量输入方面生产效率提高了一个数量级。即将制定的战略旨在广泛适用于各种现有和新兴工艺，但短期内我们将解决 i) 二氧化碳增值的新兴技术，无需进行昂贵的初步分离，最终生产超清洁替代燃料和增值产品，以及 ii) 目前天然气汽车尾气处理系统在经济上面临挑战。这两种技术都将显着减少温室气体排放，并实现向替代燃料的过渡，例如沼气或废物衍生的先进生物燃料。