ABSTRACT
Ahmad Kalantar Neyestanaki, Pa'ivi Maki-Arvela, Esa Toukoniitty, Henrik Backman, Fredrik Klingstedt, Tapio Salmi, and Dmitry Yu. Murzin Abo Akademi University, Abo/Turku, Finland
INTRODUCTION
Heterogeneous catalysis is increasingly applied in chemical industries to decrease the raw material consumption, pollutants emission and to improve the product selectivity. Catalytically active metals and metal oxides are usually deposited on a carrier or support. The role of the support is to stabilize the active component in highly dispersed small particles and hereby increase their exposed surface area. The activity and selectivity of the catalyst can be significantly altered by the particle size of the active metal/metal oxide and the pore size distribution of the support material.
