Shape Selective Catalysis in Industrial Applications, Second Edition, / Edition 2

by N.Y. Chen

Overview

"Examines all known industrial processes using shape selective zeolites. Second Edition contains new, up-to-date information on the specific features that make zeolites shape selective, the role shape selective catalysis can play providing environmentally clean fuels, 12-membered oxygen ring systems, mesopore systems, and more."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780824797379
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/04/1996
Series:	Chemical Industries , #65
Edition description:	Rev and Expande
Pages:	302
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.81(d)

About the Author

N. Y. Chen was a Senior Scientist and Research Advisor at the Mobil Research and Development Corporation, Princeton, New Jersey, before retiring in 1993. He has been serving as a Consultant to Mobil and also as a Visiting Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering of the National University of Singapore. The holder of over 125 U.S. patents, Dr. Chen is the coauthor of four books and has published numerous articles in leading technical journals. Dr. Chen received the B.S. degree (1947) in chemistry from the University of Shanghai, People's Republic of China, the M.S. degree (1954) in chemical engineering from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, and the Sc.D. degree (1959) in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge.

William E. Garwood is a Consultant for the Mobil Technology Company (formerly, the Mobil Research and Development Corporation), Paulsboro, New Jersey, where he previously served for 44 years and retired as a Senior Scientist. An Adjunct Professor at Rowan College, Glassboro, New Jersey, Mr. Garwood has published numerous articles in leading technical journals and holds over 100 U.S. patents. He is a member of the American Chemical Society and the Philadelphia Catalysis Club. He received the B.A. degree (1942) in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and did graduate studies in chemistry at Temple University in Philadelphia. Pennsylvania, after service in the Navy in World War II.

Francis G. Dwyer was a Senior Scientist/Manager of Catalyst Research and Development for Mobil Research and Development Corporation, Paulsboro, New Jersey, until his recent retirement in 1993 after 40 years of service. An industrial consultant in catalysis and catalytic processing, Dr. Dwyer has authored and edited numerous articles for leading technical journals in the U.S. and abroad and holds over 50 U.S. patents. Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 1993, he received the B.Ch.E. degree (1953) from Villanova University, Pennsylvania, and the M.S. (1963) and Ph.D. (1966) degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Table of Contents

Relation between zeolite structure and it catalytic activity; principal methods of achieving molecular shape selectivity; shape selective catalysis; applications in petroleum processing; applications in aromatics processing; applications in alternate fuels and light olefins; new opportunities in shape selective catalysis.

Editorial Reviews

". . .an excellent overview of shape-selective catalysis in industrial applications involving acid catalysis and the Mobil processes. "
—-AIChE Journal

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