Overview

Catalysis is the key to the sustainable development of modern chemical industry, addressing the ever-increasing societal and environmental demands for optimising the use of natural resources, minimising waste and battling global warming. Recent developments in heterogeneous catalysts explore unconventional methods to activate catalysts, such as microwave-assisted catalysis, photocatalysis and non-thermal plasma catalysis. These novel activation methods, when employed in challenging reactions, have surprisingly shown a higher efficiency than the conventional thermal-activation, as for example when employing non-thermal plasma in CO2 conversion. 

This one-day event will provide a unique platform for the UK catalysis community to share and learn the recent developments in the field of unconventional activation of heterogeneous catalysis. This will be a great opportunity for networking and to stimulating new ideas for the further development of the field. Participation of PhD students, PDRAs and ECRs is specially encouraged.

Keynote speakers

• Prof Chris Hardacre, University of Manchester
• Dr Joe Wood, University of Birmingham

The material presented has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter's own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Catalysis and Reaction Engineering Special Interest Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.