New Aspects of Spillover Effects in Catalysis for Development of Highly Active Catalysts

This proceedings volume gathers 80 papers from the third international conference on spillover, which took place in 1993. Spillover describes active species that form or settle on one phase and then move onto another phase that would not take them up under the same conditions. The effect can speed up catalytic reactions, and the book sits in the Studies in Surface Science and Catalysis series as volume 77.

Because spillover shows up mainly while reactions are running, it is hard to study with static methods, so the papers call for more basic work. Contributions describe ways of preparing catalysts so that spillover can occur, propose likely mechanisms for these non-linear effects, and examine how the idea can improve industrial catalytic processes. The book is aimed at people developing industrial catalysts and at researchers working on energy and environmental problems.