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Department of Chemical Engineering
Annual Report 2015
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out in close collaboration with international industry and
SINTEF.
FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES IN HETEROGENEOUS
CATALYSIS
Several experimental techniques are used to study the
details of solid catalysts. We are working together with
Department of Physics on the use of Transmission
Electron
Microscopy
and
Scanning
Tunnelling
Microscopy. We focus on characterisation of catalysts at
working conditions (
in situ
characterisation) and for this
purpose we are using the European Synchrotron
Radiation Facility in Grenoble. We have in-house
facilities for
in situ
IR and Raman spectroscopy. Steady
State Isotopic Transient Kinetic Analysis (SSITKA) and the
Tapered Element Oscillating Microbalance (TEOM) are
powerful techniques for studying important phenomena
such as reaction kinetics, mechanisms, catalyst
deactivation, diffusion in porous materials and
adsorption, absorption and desorption.
Adsorption of CO on a Pd
3
Ag (111) model surface,
studied using density functional theory (DFT)
calculations.
4
th
row:
Ljubisa Gavrilovic, Håkon Bergem, Endre Fenes, Xiaoyang Guo, Torbjørm Gjervan, Bjørn Christian Enger, Yahao Li,
Eirik Pedersen, Ata Salman, Rune Myrstad, Diego Alexander Pena Zapata
3
rd
row:
Magnus Rønning, Di Wang, Anders Holmen, Edd Anders Blekkan, Kumar Rajan Rout, Andrea Cognigni, Karin
Wiggen Dragsten, Camilla Otterlei, Shirley Elisabeth Liland, Isaac Yeboah, Cristian Ledesma Rodriguez, Rune Lødeng
2
nd
row:
Hilde Venvik, Daham Gunawardana Sanjaya Vidana, Qingjun Chen, Cui Ting, Victoria Gil Matellanes, Mari Helene
Farstad, Cornelis van der Wijst
1
st
row:
De Chen, Yalan Wang, Jia Yang, Xuehang Wang, Martina Francisca Baidoo, Estelle Vanhaecke, Yanying Qi
Not present
: Charitha Udani, Eleni Patanou, Erling Rytter, Farbod Dadgar, Haakon Rui, Hilde Bjørkan, Ida Hjort, Ingeborg-
Helene Svenum, Kuiyi You, Marie Døvre Strømsheim, Marthe Emelie Buan, Michael Marcus Wycisk, Nikolaos Tsakoumis,
Svatopluk Chytil, Xavier Auvray