Catalysis drives the majority of industrial chemical processes and is an essential element for the current fossil fuel based economy‎.‎ Continual improvement and innovation in catalysis plays a key role in the development of more efficient and effective fuel processing technologies‎.‎ To achieve this goal‎,‎ novel catalysts need to be designed for chemical conversions running at much higher yields and with better selectivity‎,‎ which can improve the economics and sustainability of these processes by reducing the consumption of raw materials‎,‎ energy‎,‎ and emissions to the environment‎.‎ This book is based on contributions to the symposium ‎"‎Novel Materials for Catalysis and Fuels Processing ‎"‎ that took place at the 243rd ACS National Meeting in San Diego‎,‎ California on March‎,‎ 2012‎.‎Many topics concerning the growing area of materials for catalysis and fuel processing were presented in this symposium‎,‎ and they constitute the main content of this book‎,‎ including theoretical and experimental advances in the areas of catalyst synthesis‎,‎ characterization‎,‎ and kinetics for renewable feedstocks conversion‎,‎ alternative fuel production‎,‎ emission control‎,‎ selective reductive and oxidative processes‎,‎ and carbon sequestration and transformation‎.‎ This book contains 14 peer‎-reviewed chapters‎.‎ These chapters have been organized in five sections‎:‎ ‎(‎I‎)‎ general overview ‎(‎Chapter 1‎)‎‎,‎ ‎(‎II‎)‎ computer‎-aided design ‎(‎Chapters 2 and 3‎)‎‎,‎ ‎(‎III‎)‎ spectroscopic characterization ‎(‎Chapter 4‎)‎‎,‎ ‎(‎IV‎)‎ kinetics‎-aided design ‎(‎Chapter 5‎)‎‎,‎ and ‎(‎V‎)‎ applications of novel catalysts ‎(‎Chapters 6 to 14‎)‎‎.‎ It will appeal to both basic and applied researchers in academia andindustry who would like a comprehensive overview of the most recent studies targeting the development of the next generation of catalysts‎.‎ The selection of topics presented here touches upon current progress and development of novel materials and catalysts for fuels and chemicals processing‎.‎

• Author‎:‎ Juan J‎.‎ Bravo‎-Suarez‎,‎ Viviane Schwartz‎,‎ Michelle K‎.‎ Kidder
• Publisher‎:‎ Oxford University Press
• ISBN‎:‎ 9780841228115