Chemical reaction engineering (CRE) is central to the success of the chemical industry, as well as energy production, clean transportation, and environmental technology and will continue to play a vital role in future economic growth. This Virtual Special Issue (VSI) of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research is a collection of contributions that were presented at […]

Chemical reaction engineering (CRE) is central to the success of the chemical industry, as well as energy production, clean transportation, and environmental technology and will continue to play a vital role in future economic growth. This Virtual Special Issue (VSI) of Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research is a collection of contributions that were presented at the 4th North American Symposium on Chemical Reaction Engineering (NASCRE-4) in Houston, Texas, in March 2019.

The meeting brought together leading scientists from various fields to share the latest research on some of the most challenging problems in CRE. The participation from the next generation of chemical reaction engineers was a particularly exciting aspect of the meeting and is reflected in the contributions to this special issue.

Read the Editorial by Linda Broadbelt of Northwestern University, Pankaj Gautam of SABIC, and James Bielenberg of ExxonMobile.

Building a Microkinetic Model from First Principles for Higher Amine Synthesis on Pd Catalyst

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Liquid-Phase Oxidation of Ethylene Glycol on Pt and Pt–Fe Catalysts for the Production of Glycolic Acid: Remarkable Bimetallic Effect and Reaction Mechanism

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Model-Based Design for Inhibition of Thermal Runaway in Free-Radical Polymerization

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Field Testing of a UV Photodecomposition Reactor for Siloxane Removal from Landfill Gas

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Design of an Air-Cooled Sabatier Reactor for Thermocatalytic Hydrogenation of CO2: Experimental Proof-of-Concept and Model-Based Feasibility Analysis

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Experimental Investigation of the Application of Ionic Liquids to Methanol Synthesis in Membrane Reactors

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Multiscale Dynamics of Hemicellulose Hydrolysis for Biofuel Production

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Novel Working Solvent for the Production of Hydrogen Peroxide

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Influence of Tetrapropylammonium and Ethylenediamine Structure-Directing Agents on the Framework Al Distribution in B–Al–MFI Zeolites

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Wall Temperature Modulates Transversal Spatiotemporal Pattern Selection in Shallow, Nonadiabatic Packed-Bed Reactors

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Impact of Ni and Mg Loadings on Dry Reforming Performance of Pt/Ceria-Zirconia Catalysts

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Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane to Ethylene in an Oxygen-Ion-Transport-Membrane Reactor: A Proposed Design for Process Intensification

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From Laboratory to Industrial Operation: Model-Based Digital Design and Optimization of Fixed-Bed Catalytic Reactors

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The Effect of Prereduction on the Performance of Pd/Al2O3 and Pd/CeO2 Catalysts during Methane Oxidation

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Current Trends in Cellulose Assisted Combustion Synthesis of Catalytically Active Nanoparticles

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Engineering the Hierarchical Pore Structures and Geometries of Hydrodemetallization Catalyst Pellets

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Crystallite-Scale Approach To Predict the Oxygen Storage Capacity of a Three-Way Catalyst for Natural Gas Applications

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Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling of Radiation in a Steam Methane Reforming Fixed-Bed Reactor

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Catalytic Hydrogenation of Short Chain Carboxylic Acids Typical of Model Compound Found in Bio-Oils

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Cerium Oxide Catalyzes the Selective Vapor-Phase Hydrodeoxygenation of Anisole to Benzene at Ambient Pressures of Hydrogen

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Process Intensification in a Gas–Solid Vortex Unit: Computational Fluid Dynamics Model Based Analysis and Design

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Accumulation Dynamics as a New Tool for Catalyst Discrimination: An Example from Ammonia Decomposition

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Catalytic Cracking of Biomass-Derived Hydrocarbon Tars or Model Compounds To Form Biobased Benzene, Toluene, and Xylene Isomer Mixtures

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CO2 Conversion Performance of Perovskite Oxides Designed with Abundant Metals

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Multiscale Modeling of Isobutane Alkylation with Mixed C4 Olefins Using Sulfuric Acid as Catalyst

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Tuning Adsorption and Catalytic Properties of α-Cr2O3 and ZnO in Propane Dehydrogenation by Creating Oxygen Vacancy and Doping Single Pt Atom: A Comparative First-Principles Study

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Short Contact Time Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane over Rhodium Supported on Ceria Based 3-D Printed Supports

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Mechanisms of Copper-Based Catalyst Deactivation during CO2 Reduction to Methanol

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Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane to Propylene over VOx on Mixed θ-Al2O3/Alkaline Earth Metal Oxide Supports

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Kinetic Study of the Pyrolytic Treatment of Petroleum-Contaminated Soils

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