Catalysis Society Of Metro NY

Local chapter of the North American Catalysis Society (NACS)

Serving the central New Jersey area

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Welcome to the Catalysis Society of Metro NY Site


   

 

The Catalysis Society of Metro NY is a non-profit organization founded in 1956 to promote and encourage the growth and development of the science of catalysis in the central New Jersey area. 
  • We organize 7 monthly professional dinner seminar meetings of scientists - to report, discuss and exchange information and viewpoints in the field of catalysis. 
  • We also organize an annual all-day Spring Symposium in March which includes lectures from distinguished researchers and a poster session presented by university students working in the catalysis area.

 

2010-2011 Season Membership Message

We have a stimulating program planned for the 2010-2011 Season. Each year we need to renew our membership and update our email list. Please click on the following link to renew your membership or be added to our email list. (Registration_Email Form)


2010-2011 Meeting Program and Registration Form

 

Save the Date! 

Wednesday, Sept 15th

First NYCS meeting of the season.

 

 

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Upcoming Meetings

September, 15 2010:

 

In situ and Operando Raman during catalytic reaction: assessing structure-activity relationships and providing real-time catalytic monitoring

 

Prof. Dr. Miguel A. Bañares

Catalytic Spectroscopy Laboratory

CSIC - Insitute for Catalysis, Madrid, Spain (EU)

 

 

Catalysis science stands on knowledge as a key ingredient to support further progress. Being able to determine which structure, is efficient for a given reaction step is a key ingredient to understand how it operates and, ultimately, controlling its performance. Conventional spectroscopic studies of fresh and used catalysts are informative, but the actual state of a catalyst during catalytic operation is rarely related to the fresh and spent catalysts. The structural transformations account for the significant transient activation or deactivation processes exhibited by many industrial catalytic systems. The advantage of operando methodologies is that catalytic performance changes can be directly linked to structural changes of the catalytic material. The strong influence of the reaction environment on the actual catalyst structure is the driving force to combine in situ studies under actual catalytic operation with simultaneous catalytic activity/selectivity measurement. Such combination of experiments is the basic idea of Operando Methodology, which was introduced into the catalysis literature seven years ago [Guerrero-Pérez and Bañares, 2002, Bañares et al., 2002, Bañares and Wachs, 2002]. The term “operando” provides a single word that underlines the simultaneous evaluation of both catalyst active site structure and catalytic activity/selectivity. It is critical that an operando reactor cell satisfies the requirements of both an in situ cell and those of a catalytic reactor used for the targeted reaction.

 

            The application of operando Raman spectroscopy coupled to simultaneous gas chromatography and quadrupole mass spectrometry will be presented during the gas-solid reactions and during liquid phase reaction.