Aalto – Chemical conversions

The laboratory scale reactors related to catalytic conversion of biomass-derived compounds include various reactors operated in batch mode (50-100 ml, operating temperatures typically up to above 300 °C and even up to 500 °C, operating pressures up to 35 MPa) and in continuous mode (under normal pressure up to 1000 °C, and up to 5 MPa in elevated temperature, systems with on-line analytics of the product stream).

Aalto has facilities for the preparation of catalysts with various methods and equipment for the characterization of catalysts e.g. physisorption, chemisorption and temperature programmed techniques. Moreover, a wide variety of elementary analyses are in use (XRD, XRF, TEM, SEM etc.).

For further information, please visit http://cmet.aalto.fi/en/research/industrial_chemistry_catalysis/