Methane CPOX: catalyst improvement for a micro refinery unit

Participating to the Mitacs Globalink program will give me the chance to carry on research at TUM, joing the research group at the Lehrstuhl fur Technische Chemie II. I will work under the supervision of Prof. Johannes Lercher and I will learn how to combine advanced physicochemical methods to characterize the methane reaction on surfaces and in the pores of the catalyst with IR, solid state NMR spectroscopy with X-ray absorption spectroscopy. I am interested in learning this to understand the structure and electronic state of the catalyst during the reaction. I will carry on the mechanistic and kinetic studies of the carbon deposition at high pressure on the Pt catalyst correlated with the influence of the dimensions of the metal particles.
The goal of my stay at TUM is to combine the different knowledge of the research groups and to end up with an active catalyst that will allow us, at Ecole Polytechnique Montreal, to design a micro reformer.

Faculty Supervisor:

Gregory Patience

Student:

Partner:

Technical University of Munich

Discipline:

Engineering

Sector:

Natural Resources; Oil and Gas; Environmental Science and Technology

University:

École Polytechnique de Montréal

Program: