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Energy efficiency-based design of catalytic and non-catalytic processes

Pan, Yanbo
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1596203425631645

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2020, Doctor of Philosophy, University of Akron, Chemical Engineering.
As the energy shortage situation has emerged as a serious issue in the past few decades, realizing energy efficiency by rational design in different processes has raised increasing interests in chemical industries. Hence, in this dissertation, I focused on the design of catalytic and non-catalytic processes with an emphasis on the improvement of energy efficiency. For the catalytic processes, I demonstrated a computation-guided design of active sites for Pt alloy catalysts in the CO preferential oxidation reaction, developed a catalyst descriptor based on the work function and its oscillation for reducible metal oxides to establish the structure-property relationship that can be used for catalysts design and screening, proposed a novel competitive transient electrostatic adsorption mechanism that can effectively regenerate the poisoned catalysts with minimal energy consumption. For the non-catalytic process, I focused on the development of novel electrochemical water desalination method to overcome the high energy consumption in the current desalination industries, and fabricated a nickel phthalocyanine tetrasulfonic acid tetrasodium salt (NiPcTATS)-based redox flow desalination cell that allows safe, continuous, and energy-efficient water-salt separation. These findings offer insights for the design and screening of catalysts that can help realize more energy-efficient reactions, the design of energy-efficient, clean and in situ catalysts regeneration methods, and the design of energy-efficient, cost-effective and promising saltwater desalination techniques.
Zhenmeng Peng (Advisor)
Lu-Kwang Ju (Committee Member)
Lingyun Liu (Committee Member)
Yalin Dong (Committee Member)
Yu Zhu (Committee Member)
141 p.
Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Energy

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  • Pan, Y. (2020). Energy efficiency-based design of catalytic and non-catalytic processes [Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1596203425631645

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Pan, Yanbo. Energy efficiency-based design of catalytic and non-catalytic processes . 2020. University of Akron, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1596203425631645.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Pan, Yanbo. "Energy efficiency-based design of catalytic and non-catalytic processes ." Doctoral dissertation, University of Akron, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1596203425631645

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