Catalytic devices principles

Catalytic devices are widely used throughout industry as a convenient means of estimating the concentration of flammable gases in air. The range of hazards encountered and the number of instruments available from many different manufacturers are increasing annually. However, the vast majority of these instruments use the same principles of detection and hence have many features in common. The purpose of this chapter is to describe these features and the advantages and disadvantages which result from them. 

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The control of carbon monoxide emissions is based on the principle that less of the gas is produced when the efficiency of combustion is improved. One device to achieve this objective is the catalytic converter, now required on all motor vehicles sold in the United States. A catalytic converter provides a second stage of combustion in motor vehicles, allowing carbon monoxide and other unburned components of a fuel to be oxidized before release into the atmosphere. (The operation of a catalytic converter is described later in this chapter.)... 

An important requirement of kinetic studies for automotive aftertreatment devices is the capability of performing dynamic reactive experiments. Steady-state tests provide useful information for identification of reaction pathway and stoichiometry, but cannot capture the real operating behavior of catalytic converters for vehicles, which is transient in nature. Indeed, this is so not only because of the continuously changing conditions (temperature, composition, flow rate) of the engine exhausts as extensively addressed in the following sections, the principles of NSRC and SCR applications largely rely on the storage/reaction/release dynamics of NOx and of NH3, respectively. 

Furthermore, different derivations of the LAPS principle have been proposed either to allow a multiple detection of different ions on the same sensor chip or to extend the measurement capabilities of LAPS devices. Another focus for alternative applications is LAPS-based sensors for gas-sensing purposes by making use of catalytic effects of thin... 

Engstrom and Carlsson already introduced in 1983 an SLPT [119] for the characterisation of MIS structures, which was extended to chemical gas sensors by Lundstrom et al. [26]. Both SLPT and LAPS base upon the same technique and principle. However, due to the different fields of applications in history, one refers to LAPS for chemical sensors in electrolyte solutions and for biosensors, and the SLPT for gas sensors. A description of the development of a hydrogen sensor based on catalytic field-effect devices including the SLP technique can be found, e.g., in Refs. [120,121]. The SPLT consists of a metal surface as sensitive material which is heated by, for instance, underlying resistive heaters to a specific working-point temperature, and a prober tip replaces the reference electrode (see Fig. 5.10). 

In this section we will deal with the basic principles of H2 sensors based on the combination of a catalytic metal (Pd, for instance) with an a-Si H thin film. As for the sensitivity of these devices, we will explore the variation of... 

The principle of the reactor with an elevator in Pyrex glass (139,178) is given schematically in Fig. 15. The Pt/Al203 catalyst (20-30 mg) is placed at the bottom of a pyrex nonporous pan (A) and is covered by 1 g of silica held in a pyrex holder (B) with a porous glass bottom (position L). The lifting device (C) allows the removal of the catalyst (with some silica) in the pan, which is suspended by an inert wire and glass rod and is raised to position H. The stopcock (D) isolates the catalyst in the pan from silica in (B) during the catalytic run. 

In the second part of this contribution, we will demonstrate how the basic principles discussed above can be utilized as a starting point for creating artificial biomimetic and bioinspired catalytic and photosynthetic devices. At present, only very few examples of synthetic molecular systems, which are able to replace all important functional aspects of their native counterparts under mild and ambient conditions, have been described in the literature (6), including some important results of our own work. In the last sections of this review, several selected case studies from the author s research efforts in this direction will therefore be presented. 

In principle, this is the best—or at least the simplest—choice for the design of catalytic sensors. They can be directly designed as reagentless devices and no regeneration steps are needed if continuous monitoring is intended. A priori, the catalytic conversion of the analsffe is inherently more selective than any other approach. Optimally, the sensor response should be limited by mass... 

The use of nanoscale constructs has given a further major boost to solar photon conversion. The scale of nanosized materials such as quantum dots and nanotubes, conventionally taken to lie in the range 1-100 nm, produces very interesting size quantisation effects in optoelectronic and other properties bandgaps shift to the blue, carrier lifetimes increase, potent catalytic properties emerge and constructs with very high surface-to-volume ratios can be made. Incorporation of nanoscale structures in photovoltaic devices allows these unique properties to be exploited, with conversion efficiencies above the detailed balance limit becoming possible in principle. 

Combining reaction and separation in the same device leads in principle to the most compact and economic design. For this reason Reactive Distillation (RD) has raised a high interest, both from industrial and scientific point of view. A synonym term is Catalytic Distillation, because only a catalyst can enhance the reaction rate at values compatible with the separation requirements. 

The NaBH4 hydrogen generation systems and devices are comparatively simple in their principles and components. They are basically composed of a catalytic reactor, fuel and fuel recovery tanks, mist and crystalline separators, condenser or heat exchanger, pump and pressure regulator. A hydrogen generation system for PEMFC is illustrated schematically in Fig. 6.45 and for an experimental set-up of 1 kW capacity in Fig. 6.46. 

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Supramolecular chemistry has been a very popular research topic for three decades now. Most applications are foreseen in sensors and opto-electronical devices. Supramolecular catalysis often refers to the combination of a catalyst with a synthetic receptor molecule that preorganizes the substrate-catalyst complex and has also been proposed as an important possible application. The concept, which has proven to be powerful in enzymes, has mainly been demonstrated by chemists that investigated hydrolysis reactions. Zinc and copper in combination with cyclodextrins as the receptor dramatically enhance the rate ofhydrolysis. So far, the ample research devoted to transition metal catalysis has not been extended to supramolecular transition metal catalysis. A rare example of such a supramolecular transition metal catalyst was the results of the joined efforts of the groups of Nolte and Van Leeuwen [SO], They reported a basket-shaped molecule functionalized with a catalytically active rhodium complex that catalyzed hydrogenation reactions according to the principles of enzymes. The system showed substrate selectivity, Michaelis Menten kinetics and rate enhancement by cooperative binding of substrate molecules. The hydroformylation of allyl catachol substrates resulted in a complex mixture of products. 

The second group encompasses devices in which the zeolite itself is the main functional material leading to a sensor effect. Such detection principles rely directly on adsorptive, catalytic, or conductive properties of one specific zeoUte that are subject to well-defined changes depending on the composition of the gaseous surroundings (Alberti and Fetting 1994 Xu et al. 2(X)6 Sahner et al. 2008). 

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