Boudart, Michel

Biesenherger, J. A., and Sebastian, D. H., Principles of Polymerization Engineering, Wiley 1983. Boudart, Michel, The Kinetics of Chemical Processes, Prentice Hall, 1968. 

Sinfelt, J.H. "Catalytic reforming of hydrocarbons." In Anderson, John R. and Boudart, Michel, eds. Catalysis-Science and Technology. Vol. 1. Berlin, Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 1981 p. 257-300. 

Boudart, Michel. Kinetics of Chemical Processes Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1968. 

John C. Berg, Andreas Acrivos, and Michel Boudart, Evaporation Convection H. M. Tsuchiya, A. G, Fredrickson, and R. Aiis, Dynamics of Microbial Cell Populations Samuel Sideman, Direct Contact Heat Transfer between Immiscible Liquids Howard Brenner, Hydrodynamic Resistance of Particles at Small Reynolds Numbers... 

John C. Berg, Andreas Acrivos. and Michel Boudart Dynamics of Microbial Cell Populations... 

His many scientific contributions and their industrial applications were recognized by the awards and honors he received. They include the American Chemical Society Kendall Award in Colloid and Surface Chemistry in 1973, the American Chemical Society Lubrizol Award in Petroleum Chemistry in 1983, and the Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Award. The Robert L. Burwell Lectureship Award of the North American Catalysis Society was established in recognition of his outstanding contributions to catalysis. Professor Burwell was also known for the first short course in heterogeneous catalysis, which he taught for several years with Michel Boudart. 

H. Heinemann A brief history of industrial catalysis, in John R. Anderson and Michel Boudart (editors) Catalysis. Science and technology. Volume 1. Springer (1981). 

Michel Boudart and G. Djega-Mariadassou Kinetics of heterogeneous catalytic reactions. Princeton University Press (1984). 

The editors express their appreciation to Giles R. Cokelet of the California Institute of Technology, who has also participated in manuscript review as the assistant editor for this volume to Michel Boudart, for his review of the chapter by J. H. Sinfelt and to the staff of Academic Press, for help in expediting publication. 

Even this form, backed as it is by a theory of adsorbtion and catalysis, would have to be tested in its several parts, for as Michel Boudart once said, It s all over with the overall . 

Although there are not many people with deep commitments to both the formal and the empirical approach to kinetics, there has fortunately been no divisive misunderstanding. Thus an expert on catalysis, both in the laboratory and the chemical plant, Michel Boudart, pointed out to me that my proof of the consistency of equilibrium and the kinetic expressions assumed too many degrees of freedom. This was corrected in a paper of Some Addenda to the Prolegomena [76],... 

I am very thankful to Michel Boudart for the inspiration to produce this tome, and to my wife Hideko, and children, Monika and Leo, for their support during its preparation. 

This work was begun during my apprenticeship with the late Earl L. Muetterties. I am indebted to many of my colleagues and friends for sharing their knowledge and vision with me. Here my special thanks are to John T. Yates, Jr., Gerhard Ertl, and Michel Boudart, who have been the most sympathetic listeners and incisive critics of my work, and to Alexis T. Bell for the sheer scientific pleasure of our collaboration. 

Kinetics of Chemical Processes, Michel Boudart, Butterworth-Heinmann, London, 1991. 

We have divided this presentation into seven parts. In this first part we point out that it would serve little purpose to enumerate and discuss the modern surface science techniques which have been developed in recent years. This is not the purpose of this presentation, nor is it within our most recent expertise to discuss techniques which will be so ably covered in subsequent presentations. Thus, we contacted some of the leaders in surface science and catalysis and asked them what they consider to be the most important breakthroughs in the area of catalyst characterization and what are the challenges of the future. We spoke with Michel Boudart, Wayne Goodman, Wolfgang Sachtler and John Sinfelt. None of these experts has requested either anonymity or immunity. This is described in Part II. 

Michel Boudart felt that the "most universally useful tool is synchrotron radiation which can handle all elements, valences and atomic structure in situ, even in liquid phase". The challenge is "ability to handle and understand catalyst deactivation at molecular and microscopic levels". 

As surface science tools became more sophisticated it became abundantly clear that nearly all tools required extremely clean surfaces and high vacuum techniques. Michel Boudart has pointed out a number of times the need to bridge the gap between the high vacuum spectroscopic techniques and the real world of catalytic reactions. 

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