Overview
Catalytic reactions are of tremendous commercial importance. Over 90% of all chemicals worldwide are manufactured with the aid of solid catalysts. Developing improved catalysts and optimizing the reaction conditions are key for improving commercial and ecological efficiency of catalytic processes.
High-pressure thermogravimetric analysis (HP-TGA) allows investigating reactions of a catalyst with the gas phase under realistic working conditions on the lab scale. Reaction conditions can include high pressure, high temperature, and reactive gas mixtures and steam. Activation and deactivation (by oxidation or coking) of a catalyst is associated with a weight change that can be measured in the HP-TGA. Simultaneously, the yield and kinetics of the reaction can be monitored by evolved gas analysis with online MS, FTIR or other methods. These data are extremely useful to optimize reaction conditions and develop improved catalyst materials.
In this webinar you will learn:
- The benefits of HP-TGA experiments for the optimization of heterogenous catalysis reactions.
- How the measurement of catalyst weight changes in a reaction can detect activation and deactivation processes.
- How you can characterize catalysts with gravimetric data in sorption and TPD/TPR/TPO experiments.
- How you can use online mass spectrometry to determine the reaction yield while you monitor the catalyst weight.
About the Speaker
Thomas Paschke is the Application Specialist for the Rubotherm Series Thermal Analysis product line at TA Instruments. Thomas joined Rubotherm in 2013 and continued working in this position with TA after Rubotherm was acquired by TA in 2016. After obtaining his PhD in analytical chemistry, Thomas started his career as post-doc at the EERC (Energy & Environmental Research Center) at UND in Grand Forks, ND. Later he worked in different positions for the German company Axel Semrau with GC, GC/MS and high-pressure equipment. As Application Specialist, Thomas supports TA customers in finding the right instruments and methodologies for their challenging TGA applications under extreme conditions.
