Course details

  • Study time: (x)h

  • Target audience: students and professional with a principle knowledge of the level of a bachelor student.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Welcome video

    • Meet the teachers

    • Learning objectives

    • Good practices to use this platform

    • How to obtain your course certificate
  • 2

    1. Basics of heterogeneous catalysis

    • Catalytic Cycle and active sites

    • Productivity in Heterogenous Catalysis

    • Quiz: Do you understand the concept of productivity in heterogenous catalysis?

    • Catalytic activity

    • Adsorption as a first step in catalysis

    • Exercise: Can you calculate surface coverage?

    • Surface coverage model answer

    • Exercise: Visualize the surface coverage

    • Surface coverage visualization answer

    • Reaction rate expression

    • Exercise rate expression

    • Exercise rate expression model answer

    • Conclusion of chapter
  • 3

    2. Basics of Catalyst Characterization

    • Introduction

    • X-ray diffraction

    • Exercise: Can you calculate the particle size?

    • Calculate particle size - model answer

    • In situ XRD

    • Microscopy

    • Temperature programmed reduction/oxidation

    • Titration. Pulse chemisorption

    • Measuring rates. "10 commandments"

    • When the reaction kinetics are to be measured?
  • 4

    4. CO₂ Methanation

    • Introduction

    • CO₂ Methanation Explained

    • Storage of solar photons/electrons

    • Future energy system

    • Quiz: How much Tesla size batteries worth of energy are stored in Loenhout?

    • Methanation kinetics

    • Case Study #1: let's get started

    • Case Study #1: Metal dispersion

    • Case Study #1: TEM images

    • Case Study #1: Empirical formula

    • Case Study #1: Catalyst preparation

    • Case Study #1: Temperature programmed reduction (TPR)

    • Case Study #1: XRD diffraction pattern

    • Case Study #1: Catalyst productivity

    • Solutions to Case study #1
  • 5

    5. Methanol Synthesis

    • Methanol synthesis

    • Process design

    • Case Study #2: let's get started

    • Case Study #2: Kinetics (part 1)

    • Case Study #2: Kinetics (part 2)

    • Case Study #2: Kinetics (part 3)

    • Case Study #2: Thermodynamics

    • Case Study #2: Reactor productivity

    • Case study #2: Solutions
  • 6

    6. Conclusion

    • Summary of the course

    • Further readings

    • Thanks to our sponsors
  • 7

    Map-it CCU Evaluation of the learning module

    • How this evaluation is structured

    • Questionnaire - for INDUSTRIAL testers

    • Questionnaire - for ACADEMIC testers

Instructor(s)

Professor

Mark Saeys

Academic Lead of CAPTURE CO2 pipeline Laboratory for Chemical Technology, Ghent University

Senior Research Specialist

Mostafa Aly

PhD student, Ghent University Senior Research Specialist, Dow