Principles of catalysis and applications to industrial reactions; catalyst preparation, methods for catalyst characterization, deactivation mechanisms and regeneration techniques, catalyst testing (laboratory and industrial reactors), fundamentals of kinetics of heterogeneous reactions; applications to selected industrial processes. Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CHEN 354; Grade of C or better in CHEN 364 or concurrent enrollment; junior or senior classification; Qatar campus Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.
Principles of catalysis and applications to industrial reactions; catalyst preparation, methods for catalyst characterization, deactivation mechanisms and regeneration techniques, catalyst testing (laboratory and industrial reactors), fundamentals of kinetics of heterogeneous reactions; applications to selected industrial processes. Prerequisites: Grade of C or better in CHEN 354; Grade of C or better in CHEN 364 or concurrent enrollment; junior or senior classification; Qatar campus Credits 3. 3 Lecture Hours.