When: 17 – 18 June 2024Where: Pickavance Theatre (Building R22), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Fermi Avenue, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0QX We held our annual summer conference on the 17th and 18th of June. The conference took place at the Pickavance Theatre (Building R22), Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire…
Heterogeneous catalysis is a key enabler of the chemical industry from refinery to pharmaceuticals. The sectors within which this process has applications includes the pharmaceutical, research and commercial product development, manufacturing and sustainable energy sectors (such as Biodiesel). This programme is designed to give students the practical skills to undertake…
When: 28 April 2023, 15:00 BSTWhere: Online Methanol is an important platform chemical and is made on the industrial scale using heterogeneous catalysts. It is currently made in an extremely unsustainable manner, and new routes are needed, utilising ‘green’ hydrogen. The mechanism of the surface reactions involved and work relating…
Congratulations to Professor Christopher Hardacre who has won the Royal Society of Chemistry 2022 Tilden Prize! For outstanding contributions to the areas of liquid and gas phase heterogeneous catalysis. Professor Hardacre’s group focuses on the use of solids as catalysts for the production of commodity and fine chemicals and the removal of…
Drochaid Research Services Ltd is a leading commercially focussed contract research organisation with an expertise in the fields of Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis and Materials Science. The Company is based in St. Andrews and is key part of St. Andrews Applied Research Ltd (StAAR), the technology, innovation and enterprise arm…
A new Masters by Research course in Industrial Heterogeneous Catalysis is running at the University of Glasgow. The following URL provides access to a mini-brochure that describes the University of Glasgow’s Heterogeneous Catalysis Section and provides information on the tutors who run the course. https://www.gla.ac.uk/media/Media_809064_smxx.pdf This second URL provides details…
To achieve net zero, captured carbon dioxide must be efficiently utilised and recycled. A research team led by Dr Simon Kondrat (Loughborough University) and the UK Catalysis Hub are developing robust heterogeneous catalysts to directly produce methanol from amine captured carbon dioxide, which in the process regenerates the original amine.…
Metal Atoms on Surfaces and Interfaces (MASI) is a large-scale multidisciplinary project spearheaded by four UK universities (Nottingham, Cardiff, Cambridge, and Birmingham) simultaneously addressing two grand challenges: sustainable use of metals and low-carbon technologies. The project is motivated by natural (limited resource of critical metals) and anthropogenic (overpopulation, global warming)…
An exciting new EPSRC-funded PDRA position is available in the Durham Catalysis Group with Simon Beaumont on new approaches to the dynamic operation of heterogeneous catalysts: Deadline 3rd August 2021. The work will be supervised by Dr Simon Beaumont. Informal enquiries to Simon.Beaumont@durham.ac.uk welcome. For more information and to apply visit: https://durham.taleo.net/careersection/du_ext/jobdetail.ftl?job=21000642&tz=GMT%2B01%3A00&tzname=Europe%2FLondon
This talk will provide short vignettes across my career, which began in academic heterogeneous catalysis research, moved though pharmaceutical process R&D, and back into academia, exploring homogeneous catalysis in the origin of biological homochirality. Research across chemistry and chemical engineering positions in three different countries led me from autocatalysis (automotive)…
