Preview

Fluid Catalytic Cracking

Powerful Essays
Open Document
Open Document
4496 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Fluid Catalytic Cracking
Catalyst Manufacturing Science and Engineering Consortium (CMSEC)
Rutgers University New Jersey, U.S.A.

Rutgers Catalyst Manufacturing Science and Engineering Consortium (CMSEC)
Rutgers Catalyst Consortium since 2003 While a large segment of the US industry, including the petroleum, chemical, pharmaceutical, automotive, and energy industries makes and/or uses catalysts, there has been no academic program focusing on the operations required to make catalytic materials. Thus, catalyst manufacturing processes are often designed relying on empiricism, leading to uncertain/suboptimal processes, decreased quality, and increased cost. By combining the substantial level of expertise in particle technology, optimization, multi-scale simulation, catalysis and molecular modeling available at Rutgers, we are developing and promoting science-based methods for designing and optimizing catalyst manufacturing methods and processes such as impregnation, drying, slurry mixing, extrusion, calcination, etc. This is integrated with a number of educational activities including research training of undergraduate students, graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in the area of Catalyst Manufacturing. A combination of experiments and computer models has been used to improve the understanding and performance of the unit operations used to make catalysts. This knowledge, and the resulting methods and practices, have been transferred to Industrial partners to help transform this important segment of the global economy into a science-driven enterprise. The specific goals of the consortium are: • To create a world-wide prime Center of Excellence in catalyst manufacturing research. • To enhance fundamental understanding of catalyst manufacturing operations. • To develop new technology for efficient catalyst manufacturing. • To provide a research, development, and education resource for industry. The consortium was founded on October 1, 2003. The Rutgers faculty that are currently

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Powerful Essays

    Diels Alder Experiment

    • 1208 Words
    • 5 Pages

    2 Perry, Robert H. Perry 's chemical engineers ' handbook. 8th ed. New York [etc.: McGraw-Hill, 1997. Print.…

    • 1208 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Systhesis of Dulcin

    • 620 Words
    • 3 Pages

    The main objective of this lab is to gain experience at a typical synthesis and semi-microscale recrystallization.…

    • 620 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The second alternative (Alternative B) is for Liquid Chemical Co. to continue making the containers, but it will…

    • 287 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    Catalytic

    • 2767 Words
    • 12 Pages

    Catalytic Solutions, Inc. (CSI) was founded in Santa Barbara, California, in 1996 by Steve Golden and Bill Anderson. Being a young company, CSI is still in a “pre-profit” stage of operation that is why its performance measurement and incentive systems are primarily based on nonfinancial. For the first few years, CSI had developed innovative catalytic converters to the automobile market, which are used to reduce the pollution caused by combustion engine. CSI owns a technology that allows it to produce better performance and cheaper catalytic converters than competitors did.…

    • 2767 Words
    • 12 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    (15.) P. J. Collins, "Kirk-Othmer Concise Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology," 4th edn. John-Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 1999.…

    • 2472 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Chemistry

    • 924 Words
    • 4 Pages

    Chemical kinetics and catalysis: order and molecularity of reactions, rate laws and rate equations for first order and second order reactions (differential and integrated forms); zero order reactions. Determination of order of reactions. Temperature dependence of reaction rate, energy of activation. Catalytic reactions: homogeneous and heterogeneous catalytic reactions, autocatalytic reactions, catalyst poisons, catalyst promoters (typical examples).…

    • 924 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Catalytic Converters

    • 1018 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Catalytic converters are used in cars to reduce pollution and toxic gases, such as carbon monoxide. Here are the reactions that happen inside a catalytic converter:…

    • 1018 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Probs in Med

    • 590 Words
    • 3 Pages

    further# reduce# the# mass# of# catalyst# in# the# recovered# polymer# stream.# The# system# should# operate# such#…

    • 590 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Scr Cleaning Report

    • 279 Words
    • 2 Pages

    10/24/2011 The Thomas Hill Unit 1 SCR consists of three layers of 1150 mm length Ceram catalyst with 45 modules per layer. Catatlyst cleaning by SCR Services, Inc. was performed in this SCR for four 12 hour shifts starting on 10/22/11with a six man crew per shift. A vacuum hose, an air lance, and a pneumatic vibrator were employed in the process. The vibrator was only used on the top two layers because access was not available to place the vibrator below the third level. Furthermore only limited cleaning was performed on the third layer due to the time limitation placed upon the contractor in order to kept the cleaning costs within the amount of the purchase order. The contractor project manager indicated that with sufficient time improved cleaning could have been realized. The estimated average plugging per layer before and after this cleaning effort are given below. Charts indicating plugging across each layer are also presented below. Prior to SCR Services’ work the catalyst had been vacuumed by AECI personnel. SCR Services appears to have reduced the plugging in layers 1 and 2 around 50% and in layer 3 around 20%. While one of the greatest indicators of plugging removal will be the decrease in layer differential pressures, we will not have any data on this until the SCR is placed back into service int January 2012.…

    • 279 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Powerful Essays

    Chee2421

    • 2442 Words
    • 10 Pages

    Course Coordinator Teaching Staff Student Hub School Office SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING Room: ES408 Phone: 4921 5798 Office Hours: 9am-1pm and 2pm-5pm Discipline Office CHEMICAL ENGINEERING Room: NIER – A304 Phone: 4033 9063 Eric Kennedy, 024985 4422 eric.kennedy@newcastle.edu.au ATC 260A Eric Kennedy. For general enquiries please see the student HUBs Phone 49215000, email: enquiry@newcastle.edu.au…

    • 2442 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Powerful Essays
  • Good Essays

    Enthalpy of Neutralization

    • 2260 Words
    • 10 Pages

    Randall, Merle, Rossini, Frederick D., The Journal of the American Chemical Society, Vol. 51(2), February…

    • 2260 Words
    • 10 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Chemical Kinetics and J. Org

    • 3579 Words
    • 15 Pages

    and with the CPCM-solvent model. A systematic variation of the catalyst system (OsO4 and various…

    • 3579 Words
    • 15 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    chalks out of seashells

    • 1028 Words
    • 5 Pages

    Bibliography: Blount, Bertram (1990). Chemistry for Engineers and Manufacturers: Chemistry of manufacturing processes. University of Wisconsin - Madison.…

    • 1028 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Better Essays

    Many mechanisms proposed for catalytic processes are poorly understood and often fail to explain all relevant phenomena.…

    • 724 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Production of Acetone

    • 1923 Words
    • 8 Pages

    The hydration of propene [115-07-1] gives 2-propanol [67-63-0], which is then dehydrogenated to acetone. In the United States a C3 stream containing 40 – 60 % propene is used for the manufacture of 2-propanol. A large number of catalysts for 2-propanol dehydrogenation have been studied, including copper, zinc, and lead metals, as well as metal oxides, e.g., zinc oxide, copper oxide, chromium-activated copper oxide, manganese oxide, and magnesium oxide. Inert supports, such as pumice, may be used.…

    • 1923 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Good Essays