Formic acid decomposition on Au catalysts: DFT, microkinetic modeling, and reaction kinetics experiments

AIChE Journal

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1303-1319

  Singh, Suyash ^a   Li, Sha ^a   Carrasquillo Flores, Ronald ^a   Alba Rubio, Ana C ^a   Dumesic, James A ^a   Mavrikakis, Manos ^a  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

Author keywords

Active sites; Catalysis; Density functional theory; Formic acid decomposition; Microkinetic modeling

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SITE; DEHYDROGENATION PRODUCTS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; FORMIC ACID DECOMPOSITIONS; GENERALIZED GRADIENT APPROXIMATIONS; KINETICS EXPERIMENTS; MICROKINETIC MODELING; SCANNING TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CATALYSIS; CATALYST ACTIVITY; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; EXPERIMENTS; KINETICS; REACTION KINETICS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

FORMIC ACID;

EID: 84897604501     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14401     Document Type: Article

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