Upon successful completion of this course the students will acquire new knowledge and specific skills on the following subjects:

1. Will be able to rationally design and prepare heterogeneous catalysts and characterize them thoroughly.
2. Will be able to understand in depth the heterogeneous catalysts performance and catalytic reactors (of several types) behavior.
3. Will be able to design and optimize the performance of several types of industrial heterogeneous catalytic reactors.
4. Will be able to use specific criteria to understand whether intrinsic kinetics is affected by external and/or internal mass and heat transfer constrains.

• Review, analysis and synthesis of data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
• Project design and management
• Work in interdisciplinary environment

1. Heterogeneous catalysis and catalytic materials. Production methods. Textural, morphology and physicochemical characterizations of catalytic materials.
2. Physical adsorption/desorption and chemisorption. Ιsotherms.
3. Heterogeneous catalytic reactions – Mechanistic/kinetic models and rates of heterogeneous catalytic reactions.
4. Bench scale heterocatalytic reactors and kinetic data acquisition.
5. Kinetic data analysis and quantitative interpretation. Intrinsic kinetics/activity.
6. External mass and heat transport processes in heterogeneous catalytic reactions – Interaction with intrinsic kinetics.
7. Internal transport properties (mass diffusion and intrapellet heat transfer) within porous catalysts – Interaction with intrinsic kinetics.
8. Overall interaction of external mass transfer, internal diffusion and intrinsic activity in catalytic pellets.
9. Global pseudo-homogeneous rates and Effectiveness factors of industrial heterogeneous catalysts.
10. Kinetics data evaluation.
11. Criteria (qualitative/quantitative) for determining the influence of mass and heat transfer constrains on catalysts’ global rate and effectiveness factor.
12. Catalysts deactivation.
13. Design of heterogeneous catalytic reactors: Fixed bed, fluidized bed, slurry and trickle-bed reactors.

Use of Information and Communication Technology

• Power point presentations
• E-class support

Assessment Method

Ι. Written final examination (80%): 
 - Problems to be resolved.

• J.M. Smith, “Chemical Engineering Kinetics”, McGraw-Hill, Kogakusha, Ltd. 1970 (2nd ed.)
• J.J. Carberry, “Chemical and Catalytic reaction Engineering”. McGraw-Hill, N.Y., 1979