COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KIM 6002 HETEROGENEOUS CATALYSIS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Chemistry
Chemistry
Chemistry

Course Objective

The course deals with chemical and physical phenomena that are important within heterogeneous catalysis. Among these are adsorption on and desorption from solids, the chemical kinetics of surface reactions, and chemical equilibrium. The course is well suited for students with interests directly related to catalysis and Ph.D. candidates working within related areas in physical chemistry and industrial chemistry.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   After having completed the course, the student will be able to: have knowledge about the fundamental principles and experimental techniques used to study the basic steps in a heterogeneously catalyzed reaction
2   give a quantitative description of adsorption/desorption and the kinetics of catalytic reactions on a catalyst surface
3   describe how physical chemistry, statistical thermodynamics, and transition state theory are combined to calculate the rate of surface reactions
4   account for how the catalytic activity and selectivity is influenced by the physical and surface properties of the catalyst
5   account for the physical and/or chemical phenomena behind important techniques for the characterization of catalysts and catalytic reactions and the information offered by these techniques
6   learn how to prepare and characterize a heterogeneous catalyst

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Physical and chemical adssorption, activation energy and catalysis
2 Surface heterogenity, adsorption isotherms; the Langmuir isotherm, the Freundlich isotherm, the Tempkin isotherm, the multilayer-adsorption theory
3 Heats of adsorption and related phenomena
4 The nature of the surface bond, interface concepts
5 Adsorption and catalysis on oxides
6 Preparation and characterization of Solid Catalysts
7 Midterm
8 Model Systems: Elementary Steps and Mechanisms, Kinetics and Transport Processes, Deactivation and Regeneration
9 Special Catalytic Systems: Laboratory Reactors, Reaction Engineering, Environmental Catalysis
10 Inorganic Reactions: Energy-related Catalysis, Organic Reactions
11 Metal-catalysed hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbons
12 Electrocatalysis: Components of the catalyst formulation, Examples of catalyst preparation, Catalysis and chemistry, Catalytic process and proven catalysts
13 General Evaluation and Make-up and discussions on recent articles in heterogeneous catalysis
14 Homework discussions and presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Atkins, P. W., Heterogeneous Catalysis, Physical chemistry, Oxford University Press, 1986.
2. Julian R.H. Ross, Heterogeneous Catalysis: Fundamentals and Applications, Elsevier; 1 edition (November 21, 2011), ISBN-10: 044453363X.
3. John Meurig Thomas and W. John Thomas, Principles and Practice of Heterogeneous Catalysis, Wiley-VCH; 1 edition (September 1996), ISBN-10: 352729239X.
4. D. K. Chakrabarty and B. Viswanathan, Heterogeneous Catalysis, New Age Science (January 1, 2009), ISBN-10: 190657409X.
5. Gerhard Ertl (Editor), Helmut Knözinger (Editor), Ferdi Schüth (Editor), Jens Weitkamp (Editor), Handbook of Heterogeneous Catalysis, 8 Volumes, Wiley-VCH; 2 edition (April 8, 2008), ISBN-10: 3527312412.



Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Fourteen, three-hour lectures backed up with one midterm examination and one workshop and interactive presentations. All the didactic material is preliminary available to the student both in paper and electronic form. The books used to prepare the lectures are available at the Library of the University. Further data and/or information may be obtained consulting the Library of the University also using the new wireless network.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PRS PRESENTATION
4 FIN FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + FIN * 0.40
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE* 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + PRS * 0.10 + RST * 0.40


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Lecture, Discussion, Question & Answer, Field Trip, Team/Group Work, Demonstration, Experiment, Drill - Practise, Case Study, Brain Storming

Assessment Criteria

Midterm(%30)+ Homework(%20)+Presentation(%10)+Final exam(%40)

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Students will attend 14 lectures and 2 tutorials and 1 workshop on the material covered in this course. Attendance is compulsory at both till %70, but the rules for the attendence up to the students and can be obtained from the web site of Graduate School of Sciences at http://www.fbe.deu.edu.tr/.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Kadir Yurdakoç
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry
Phone: (232) 3018695
E-mail: k.yurdakoc@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesdays 5.,6.th hours.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Tutorials 2 2 4
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 25 25
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 165

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.122233
LO.233
LO.322
LO.433
LO.533
LO.6333

CONTACT INFORMATION
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Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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