Catalysis: Vol. 19 (Specialist Periodical Reports)

There is an increasing challenge for chemical industry and research institutions to find cost-efficient and environmentally sound methods of converting natural resources into fuels chemicals and energy. Catalysts are essential to these processes and the Catalysis Specialist Periodical Report series serves to highlight major developments in this area. This series provides systematic and detailed reviews of topics of interest to scientists and engineers in the catalysis field. The coverage includes all major areas of heterogeneous and homogeneous catalysis and also specific applications of catalysis such as NOx control kinetics and experimental techniques such as microcalorimetry. Each chapter is compiled by recognised experts within their specialist fields and provides a summary of the current literature. This series will be of interest to all those in academia and industry who need an up-to-date critical analysis and summary of catalysis research and applications. Catalysis will be of interest to anyone working in academia and industry that needs an up-to-date critical analysis and summary of catalysis research and applications. Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage in major areas of chemical research. Compiled by teams of leading experts in their specialist fields, this series is designed to help the chemistry community keep current with the latest developments in their field. Each volume in the series is published either annually or biennially and is a superb reference point for researchers. www.rsc.org/spr

Editorial Reviews

Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage of progress in the major areas of chemical research, written by experts in their specialist fields, for the benefit of active research chemists. This volume presents five topics of current interest in the field of catalysis: toward supported oxide catalysts via solid-solid wetting; model catalyst studies of supported metal sintering and redispersion kinetics; techniques for measuring zeolite acidity; applications of raman spectroscopy to heterogeneous catalysis; and oxidative coupling of methane. The detailed table of contents substitutes for an index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About The Author:

Professor Spivey is the McLaurin Shivers Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University and Director of the DOE Energy Frontier Research Center at LSU. Professor Spivey's research interests include the application of the principles of heterogeneous catalysis to catalytic combustion, control of sulfur and nitrogen oxides from combustion processes, acid/base catalysis (e.g., for condensation reactions), hydrocarbon synthesis, and the study of catalyst deactivation.