The application of neutron imaging to examine ethene hydrogenation over a carbon-supported palladium catalyst.

ABSTRACT: The combination of a heterogeneous catalyst operating within a defined reactor comes within the domain of reaction engineering, which takes cognisance of combined roles for both the catalyst and the reactor to define the overall operational system. One technique which is demonstrating much promise in investigating reaction engineering issues is neutron imaging. The technique is skewed towards monitoring hydrogen and hydrogenous species so, with hydrogen being ubiquitous in industrial organic chemistry and the penetrating power of the neutrons, neutron imaging can monitor hydrogen concentrations distributed throughout steel reactors whilst the reaction is taking place. In this way, neutron imaging can be used to assess the homogeneity of active catalyst beds and, additionally, determine how

SUBMITTER: Cavaye H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11904201 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature