Investigating the diffusion of liquids within an Anodic Alumina Support

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The effect of confining liquids has great importance in many areas and is particular interest in liquid phase heterogeneous catalysis. Metal catalysts supported on porous materials are widely used for instance in the catalysed hydrogenation of benzene to cyclohexane1, a reaction of significant commercial interest due to the use of cyclohexane as a precursor in the production of nylon, as well as environmental applications such as the removal of benzene from fuels. The diffusion process is often the rate limiting step in any catalytic reaction and so investigation of the diffusion of liquids inside the pores is of critical importance. The use of a support structure with such regular pore structure and pore size distribution shows clear advantages in terms of both diffusion processes and dispersion of metal catalysts. It is therefore of great interest to measure the diffusion process.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.87840724
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/87840724
Provenance
Creator Dr Ian Silverwood; Mr Daniel Dervin; Professor Chris Hardacre; Professor Richard Catlow; Dr Marta Falkowska
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2020
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2017-12-14T09:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2017-12-18T09:30:00Z