Catalysts driving efficiency and innovation in thermal reactions: A comprehensive review
Catalysts play a crucial role in optimizing thermal reactions across various industries, fostering efficiency and innovation. This review offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of the diverse landscape of catalysts in thermal reactions. Beginning with an introduction to the research context,...
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description | Catalysts play a crucial role in optimizing thermal reactions across various industries, fostering efficiency and innovation. This review offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of the diverse landscape of catalysts in thermal reactions. Beginning with an introduction to the research context, the review defines catalysts and underscores their importance in facilitating chemical transformations at elevated temperatures. It explores two primary categories of catalysts, homogeneous and heterogeneous, elucidating their mechanisms and applications. Delving into catalytic mechanisms reveals the intricate processes of adsorption, desorption, and intermediate formation guiding reactions on catalyst surfaces. The review highlights catalyst applications in petrochemicals, chemical synthesis, energy generation, and environmental remediation, emphasizing their significant impact. Additionally, it discusses catalyst design, challenges, and future directions, alongside advanced characterization techniques and case studies illustrating real-world implications. The conclusion underscores the transformative potential of catalysts in thermal reactions, advocating for further exploration in this dynamic field. Through this synthesis of insights, catalysts emerge as drivers of progress, propelling thermal reactions towards unprecedented levels of efficiency and ingenuity. |
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spelling | doaj.art-9ab85cc77eda44f9bcbc62b85c4e8a4d2024-02-20T04:20:00ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Green Technologies and Sustainability2949-73612024-05-0122100078Catalysts driving efficiency and innovation in thermal reactions: A comprehensive reviewWan Nor Roslam Wan Isahak0Ahmed Al-Amiery1Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, P.O. Box 43000, Selangor, MalaysiaDepartment of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, P.O. Box 43000, Selangor, Malaysia; Energy and Renewable Energies Technology Center, University of Technology, Baghdad 10001, Iraq; Corresponding author at: Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment, University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, P.O. Box 43000, Selangor, Malaysia.Catalysts play a crucial role in optimizing thermal reactions across various industries, fostering efficiency and innovation. This review offers a concise yet comprehensive examination of the diverse landscape of catalysts in thermal reactions. Beginning with an introduction to the research context, the review defines catalysts and underscores their importance in facilitating chemical transformations at elevated temperatures. It explores two primary categories of catalysts, homogeneous and heterogeneous, elucidating their mechanisms and applications. Delving into catalytic mechanisms reveals the intricate processes of adsorption, desorption, and intermediate formation guiding reactions on catalyst surfaces. The review highlights catalyst applications in petrochemicals, chemical synthesis, energy generation, and environmental remediation, emphasizing their significant impact. Additionally, it discusses catalyst design, challenges, and future directions, alongside advanced characterization techniques and case studies illustrating real-world implications. The conclusion underscores the transformative potential of catalysts in thermal reactions, advocating for further exploration in this dynamic field. Through this synthesis of insights, catalysts emerge as drivers of progress, propelling thermal reactions towards unprecedented levels of efficiency and ingenuity.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949736124000058CatalystsThermal reactionsEfficiencyInnovationSustainability |
spellingShingle | Wan Nor Roslam Wan Isahak Ahmed Al-Amiery Catalysts driving efficiency and innovation in thermal reactions: A comprehensive review Green Technologies and Sustainability Catalysts Thermal reactions Efficiency Innovation Sustainability |
title | Catalysts driving efficiency and innovation in thermal reactions: A comprehensive review |
title_full | Catalysts driving efficiency and innovation in thermal reactions: A comprehensive review |
title_fullStr | Catalysts driving efficiency and innovation in thermal reactions: A comprehensive review |
title_full_unstemmed | Catalysts driving efficiency and innovation in thermal reactions: A comprehensive review |
title_short | Catalysts driving efficiency and innovation in thermal reactions: A comprehensive review |
title_sort | catalysts driving efficiency and innovation in thermal reactions a comprehensive review |
topic | Catalysts Thermal reactions Efficiency Innovation Sustainability |
url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2949736124000058 |
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