Reactions types, heterogeneous

The vapor-phase Badger process (Eigure 10-2), which has been commercialized since 1980, can accept dilute ethylene streams such as those produced from ECC off gas. A zeolite type heterogeneous catalyst is used in a fixed bed process. The reaction conditions are 420°C and 200-300 psi. Over 98% yield is obtained at 90% conversion." Polyethylbenzene (polyalkylated) and unreacted benzene are recycled and join the fresh feed to the reactor. The reactor effluent is fed to the benzene fractionation system to recover unreacted benzene. The bottoms... 

Electrode reactions are heterogeneous since they occur at interfaces between dissimilar phases. During current flow the surface concentrations Cg j of the substances involved in the reaction change relative to the initial (bulk) concentrations Cy p Hence, the value of the equilibrium potential is defined by the Nemst equation changes, and a special type of polarization arises where the shift of electrode potential is due to a change in equilibrium potential of the electrode. The surface concentrations that are established are determined by the balance between electrode reaction rates and the supply or elimination of each substance by diffusion [Eq. (4.9)]. Hence, this type of polarization, is called diffusional concentration polarization or simply concentration polarization. (Here we must take into account that another type of concentration polarization exists which is not tied to diffusion processes see Section 13.5.)... 

Table 3.3 Noncatalyzed heterogeneous reaction types of importance in chemical metallurgy.

Transition metal NPs dispersed in ILs are recognized as suitable catalyst systems for many reaction types with both typical homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis (see Sections 1.3.1-1.3.5). The most investigated reactions are the hydrogenation of multiple bonds and arenes [1, 5, 12, 13, 43, 44, 54, 80, 89, 92], carbon-carbon cross-... 

Of course, other reaction types have been also investigated more recently, such as the Beckmann rearrangement [247,277,278] or ethylbenzene disproportionation [279, 280], just to name a couple. In situ NMR methods are expected to play a vital role in the future science of heterogeneous catalysis. 

Some of the basic concepts and technologies are described here. Catalysis can be divided into two types (1) homogeneous and (2) heterogeneous reactions. In homogeneous reactions, the reaction occurs between similar species, e.g. liquid-liquid reactions. In heterogeneous reactions, the reaction occurs between different types of species, e.g. gas-solid, liquid-solid and liquid-gas. Many industrial reactions are heterogeneous gas-solid or liquid-solid reactions. We will concentrate first on gas reactions occurring at solid catalyst surfaces ... 

These two reaction types are anodic examples of the heterogeneous catalytic enhancement of the rates of sufficiently reactive intermediates, brought about by increasing the local concentration of a reaction partner due to preferential physisorption of the respective moiety. 

From a synthetic point of view, there are a few reaction types catalyzed by chiral heterogeneous catalysts which are useful for preparative chemists. But it is also evident that the scope of most catalytic systems is rather narrow and very high substrate specificity is observed. Compared to homogeneous or bio-catalysis, enantioselectivities are usually lower but there are exceptions. 

There are many more types of elementary processes in heterogeneous catalysis than in gas phase reactions. In heterogeneous catalysis the elementary processes are broadly classified as either adsorption-desorption or surface reaction, i.e., elementary processes which involve reaction of adsorbed species. Free surface sites and molecules from the fluid phase may or may not participate in surface reaction steps. 

Some most important solvent-free routes for selective oxidations of hydrocarbons and aromatics [9], hydrogenations [10], and for a one step production of e-caprolactam from cyclohexanone with a mixture of air and ammonia using porous heterogeneous catalysts have been reported, in which the active sites have been atomically engineered [11]. There are also reactions in which at least one reactant is liquid under the conditions employed, which means the solvent normally used can simply be left out. To begin with, two industrially important examples are discussed, which confirm that a reaction process that is more environmentally friendly can also be economically very acceptable. This is followed by some recent examples of solvent-free reactions covering a remarkably broad range of reaction types in which the term solvent-free refers solely to the reaction itself. On the other hand, workup processes, except for a few examples, invariably involve the use of solvent. The... 

The rise of homogeneous catalysis, as well as the understanding of the mechanistic principles of many heterogeneously catalyzed reactions, is inextricably linked to the development of organometallic chemistry.1 Catalytic reactions can be understood on the basis of a limited number of basic reaction types. This chapter will consider the fundamental reaction steps involved in transition metal catalyzed reactions the next chapter will deal with catalytic reaction types and processes. 

The potential diversity of types (nonuniformity) of active centers and, therefore, pathways of real catalytic reactions (especially heterogeneous catalytic reactions) makes it necessary to consider the whole set of possible channels (routes) of the process and the evolution of the whole body of possible catalytic intermediates. We saw in Section 1.3 that the tools of nonequilibrium thermodynamics allow the course of these processes with an unknown or poorly understood mechanism to be inspected by combin ing kinetic and thermodynamic analysis in terms of the thermodynamic driving forces of the process. 

Thus far, the discussion of reaction rate has been confined to homogeneous reactions taking place in a closed system of uniform composition, temperature, and pressure. However, many reactions are heterogeneous they occur at the interface between phases, for example, the interface between two fluid phases (gas-liquid, liquid-liquid), the interface between a fluid and solid phase, and the interface between two solid phases. In order to obtain a convenient, specific rate of reaction it is necessary to normalize the reaction rate by the interfacial surface area available for the reaction. The interfacial area must be of uniform composition, temperature, and pressure. Frequently, the interfacial area is not known and alternative definitions of the specific rate are useful. Some examples of these types of rates are ... 

Based on the above considerations, the types of reactions that are amenable to inorganic membrane reactors in the first wave of industrial implementation will probably be as follows (1) The reactions are heterogeneous catalytic reactions, particularly dehydrogenation processes (2) The reaction temperature exceeds approximately 200°C (3) When the reactions call for high-purity reactant(s) or produces) and the volume demand is relatively small, dense membrane reactors (e.g., Pd-based) can be used. On the other hand, if high productivity is critical for the process involved, porous membrane reactors are necessary to make the process economically viable. 

The ammonia synthesis reaction is one of the most studied and best understood reactions in heterogeneous catalysis, but it has been the subject of few papers involving transient methods. SSITKA experiments have been performed at 350-500°C and 204-513 kPa using a commercial Haldor-Tops0e KMIR catalyst, with iron triply promoted by AI2O3, K2O, and CaO (262). Similar studies using K-promoted Ru/Si02 have also been reported 263). The promoted Ru catalyst is much more active than Ru alone, and new, very active sites are detected on the promoted catalyst. It seems that the analysis of this type of experiment would benefit from the elementary-step approach, as exemphfied by Kao et al. 107) two kinds of sites can be included in such a model. 

These three techniques are employed along with others not mentioned here to investigate the catalytic nature of a reaction. It is difficult to obtain positive confirmation for one catalytic nature over another because of the ability of small amounts of homogeneous catalyst (concentrations below current detection methods) to catalyze reactions [11]. Leached atoms can readsorb rapidly to heterogeneous structures, either to a substrate or to the surface of the nanoparticles [17,18], In the following sections, we review some of the major results involving colloidal nanoparticles in solution-phase catalysis. The two reaction types that will be discussed in this chapter are redox reactions and carbon-carbon bond formation reactions. 

Let us now assume that the residence time of a system is equivalent to the period of time that the system behaves as a closed system thermodynamically. With this assumption it is useful to qualitatively compare the residence times of different aqueous systems in the hydrosphere to the halftimes of some example reactions and reaction types. This has been done schematically in Fig. 2.2. In essence, as we examine the diagram, we can assume reactions are at equilibrium in waters whose residence times significantly exceed the half-times of reactions of interest. Note that the half-times of some solute-solute and solute-water reactions (these include some complexation and acid-base reactions [see Chaps. 3 and 5]) are shorter than the residence times of raindrops and so can be assumed to be at equilibrium in rain. These are homogeneous reactions. However, the other types of reactions shown, including atmospheric gas exchange, which is heterogeneous, are too slow to have... 

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