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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 awarded to Gerhard Ertl for his
groundbreaking studies in surface chemistry highlighted the
importance of heterogeneous catalysis not only for modern chemical
industry but also for environmental protection. Heterogeneous
catalysis is seen as one of the key technologies which could solve
the challenges associated with the increasing diversification of
raw materials and energy sources. It is the decisive step in most
chemical industry processes, a major method of reducing pollutant
emissions from mobile sources and is present in fuel cells to
produce electricity. The increasing power of computers over the
last decades has led to modeling and numerical simulation becoming
valuable tools in heterogeneous catalysis. This book covers many
aspects, from the state-of-the-art in modeling and simulations of
heterogeneous catalytic reactions on a molecular level to
heterogeneous catalytic reactions from an engineering perspective.
This first book on the topic conveys expert knowledge from surface
science to both chemists and engineers interested in heterogeneous
catalysis. The well-known and international authors comprehensively
present many aspects of the wide bridge between surface science and
catalytic technologies, including DFT calculations, reaction
dynamics on surfaces, Monte Carlo simulations, heterogeneous
reaction rates, reactions in porous media, electro-catalytic
reactions, technical reactors, and perspectives of chemical and
automobile industry on modeling heterogeneous catalysis. The result
is a one-stop reference for theoretical and physical chemists,
catalysis researchers, materials scientists, chemical engineers,
and chemists in industry who would like to broaden their horizon
and get a substantial overview on the different aspects of modeling
and simulation of heterogeneous catalytic reactions.
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