General Info: Characterisation in Catalysis Research

NIOK Special Graduate Course on Characterisation in Catalysis Research

NIOK organizes a 3 to 5-day course on the characterization of catalysts at the Eindhoven University of Technology.

The next course is scheduled for 24-26 January 2011, at Eindhoven.

The flyer and instruction how to register can be downloaded here. Please note that the deadline for registration is 1 December 2010.

Although the emphasis of the course will be on the characterization of industrial heterogeneous catalysts by means of spectroscopy, microscopy and diffraction, some attention will be devoted to important model systems such as singlecrystal surfaces, organometallic complexes and particles on planar supports as well.

The course also covers modern in-situ techniques to study catalysts during catalytic testing. The course will be taught by a number of experts.

General Info: Advanced Catalysis Engineering

Advanced Catalysis Engineering, NIOK Course

organised by Catalysis Engineering, DCT-TUDelft

Date for the new course is not known yet, but it is scheduled for autumn 2012. Please consult this page at another moment or contact the NIOK secretariat for more details.

It is the mission of NIOK, the institute for research and education in catalysis to bring together specialists from various backgrounds in special courses. In NIOK’s Special Course ‘Advanced Catalysis Engineering’ an integral approach of catalysis and engineering is presented with the goal to provide the essential tools for new process concepts and future catalytic technologies.
Topics include structured catalysts and reactors, catalyst selection, kinetics and stability/deactivation, novel reactor types (microreactors, autothermal, and multifunctionality) and modeling, process intensification, reactor selection strategies, and industrial cases.

The course comprises two weeks:

• The first week will be completely devoted to lecturing (including some evenings).
• The second week participants may work on a challenging case at home to renew or invent an industrial catalytic process, and present their results after that week.

 

The teachers are outstanding Dutch and foreign specialists in catalysis and engineering, with an extensive industrial and academic background. Because of the character of this course, the number of participants will be limited. This is, however, beneficial for the contact between teachers and participants.

Who should attend?
The Special Course is aimed at those active in the application of catalysis: the interface where catalysis and engineering meet. Researchers, scientists and engineers from academia, industry, and other organizations will be provided with the state of the art knowledge and experience in this area.
Basic knowledge on reactor theory and (heterogeneous) catalysis is required
(The engineering and kinetics topics of NIOK’s course ‘Integrated approach…’ should be reviewed).

General Info: Master Course on Biocatalysis

Set-up for a Delft-Nijmegen NIOK Master Course on Biocatalysis.

Course flyer 2011 can be downloaded here
Date: 20-21 + 27-28 January 2011
Venue: TU Delft & RU Nijmegen

Learning targets:

At the end of the course, the student will have an overview of the newest developments in the area of biocatalysis; catalyst design, characterization, and synergy with homogeneous catalysis (biomimetics). In addition the student should be able to formulate his/her own research questions and be able to present his/her own research topic.

Knowledge required:

Organic Chemistry; Biochemistry; Catalysis; Biocatalysis or Bioconversion technology (Delft and Leiden students); Chemical Biology (Nijmegen students); Biocatalysis course (Amsterdam, Groningen, Utrecht).

Format

This course is therefore a so-called ‘kop-cursus” on top of existing lectures in biocatalysis or related topics. The format of January 2011 is presented below, this course is scheduled for 20-21 + 27-28 January 2011:

• 2 x 2 days (2d Delft, 2d Nijmegen) in consecutive weeks end of January 2011.
• Students from elsewhere stay 1 night in a hotel.
• Course in faculty building.
• To be repeated annually if successful
• 4 topics, each to be treated on a day

General Info: Catalytic Surface Science Master Course

Catalytic Surface Science Master Course

The course is first of all meant for masterstudents from NIOK University groups, but is open for other interested people if places are available. It is an intensive three-day course, lectures are given from 9.00 - 17.00. The number of participants is limited to 30.

The course will cover: 

• Basic principles of surface chemistry
• Principles of techniques for surface analysis and characterization including electron spectroscopies, ion spectroscopies, scanning probe microscopies, vibrational spectroscopies, in-situ spectroscopy
• Structure of surfaces
• Adsorption and reactions on surfaces
• Theory
• Case studies with emphasis on understanding of catalytic processes