When: 29 March 2022, 15:00 GMT The presence of micropollutants – pharmaceuticals, pesticides, phthalates and hormones – in water is a major global health and environmental challenge. Conventional wastewater processes are not capable of effectively removing these compounds, often found at very low concentrations, µg L-1 or even ng L-1, leading…
When: 1 March 2022, 10:00 GMTWhere: The Cosener’s House, Abingdon & Online The Hub workshop to consult on data needs and wants of the catalysis community that should be delivered by a national data infrastructure. The UK Catalysis Hub invite you to participate in the workshop on the development of…
When: 25 February, 15:00 GMT Increasing demand for materials and energy, coupled with more stringent curbs on greenhouse gas emissions and pollutants necessitates the urgent need for development of new improved and efficient chemical technologies for sustainable manufacturing of chemicals. In this context Catalysis is the most important technology to…
When: 7 February, 15:00 GMT The UK Catalysis Hub has been awarded Block Allocation Group (BAG) access to the I15 X-ray PDF beamline at the Diamond Light Source. Pair Distribution Function (PDF) or total scattering analysis provides information on the local atomic arrangement of crystalline, nanophase, disordered, amorphous and liquid…
Velocys combines transformative technology, operational expertise and a partnership approach to deliver sustainable fuels technology to our clients. Velocys Group was formed by the merger of Oxford Catalysts in the UK which focused on development of Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) catalysts and Velocys Inc in Ohio, US which has developed specialist micro-channel…
HARWELL, OXFORD -The UK Catalysis Hub have named Dr. Alexander O’Malley from the University of Bath as winner of the Sir John Meurig Thomas Catalysis Medal at the UK Catalysis Hub Winter Conference on the 7th of December 2021. Dr. Alexander O’Malley was selected from the nominations for top early-career scientists…
The National Research facility in PES is up for renewal next year and, as is usual, the current operators (HarwellXPS) have been asked to explore what it is the community really wants from the centre for the next iteration. HarwellXPS need your help in gathering information for the “Statement of…
The ACG Applied Catalysis award is now open for nominations! There is a dedicated page for the award and it is also listed on the ACG page Applied Catalysis interest group. This award is open to all (all areas of catalysis, all locations etc). For more information and to apply…
Methanol to hydrocarbons (MTH) is an important petrochemical process due to its ability to replace conventional fossil fuels (e.g., coal and crude oil) based gasoline, olefins and aromatics production with carbon neutral renewable methanol feedstock, which can be derived from CO2 reduction with H2O. The MTH process can reduce the net…
The scale of time is important in chemistry. A typical catalytic reaction has turnover frequencies ranging from 0.01 to 10 or even 103 s-1. A complete turnover usually contains adsorption of reaction molecules, surface migration and several steps of elementary reaction, and finally the desorption of the product. Among which, the…
