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“Catalysis
for sustainable production of fuels and chemicals"
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Thursday, 03 June 2021 |
Video-Recording for any system with MP4-support
- Video.mp4 (ca. 257 Mb) - Video_with_eng_sub.mp4 (ca. 260 Mb) |
15:15 – 16:10
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Abstract:
The development of a sustainable energy
system puts renewed focus on catalytic
processes for energy conversion.
Electricity production from solar and wind
is becoming economically competitive but
we need to be able to store energy
from these intermittent sources. Storage
in the form of chemical bonds as fuels
is very attractive, but converting
electrical into chemical energy efficiently will
require completely new catalytic
materials. Insight into the way the catalysts
work at the molecular level may prove essential
to speed up the discovery process.
The lecture will outline a theory of
heterogeneous catalysis that singles out the
most important parameters determining
catalytic activity and selectivity.
I will use nitrogen reduction to ammonia
as the main example and discuss
the possibility to find sustainable
alternatives to the well-known Haber-Bosch process.
Speaker today: Jens Norskov (Technical University of Denmark)