Exothermic reactions, screening methods

The examples of catalyst screening cited above mainly demonstrate the concept of MSRs for fuel reforming processes. In addition, MSRs show some additional experimental benefits such as rapid response times for transient experiments and the coupling ofendo- and exothermic reactions. Note, however, thatas already stressed, if all studies claim excellent adherence and catalyst activity, key information is usually missing, such as a comparison of different catalyst synthesis methods, catalyst characterization or measurement of the temperature inside the reaction channels. 

Infrared thermography is a very attractive method for the detection of catalytic activity 15). As it is an optical inspection , it can be applied to all kinds of libraries and screening reactions. The detection of catalytic activity is based on reaction enthalpy (negative or positive) 16). As most oxidation reactions are significantly exothermic, IR thermography lends itself very well as a sensitive tool for the discovery of oxidation catalysts (see Section II. C) 17). 

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