ABSTRACT
Glass-fiber catalysts (GFCs) are able to use the noble metals (like Pt or Pd) or transient metal oxides as the active components, thus providing quite a wide range of the possible practical applications. The surface thermal synthesis method enables synthesis of highly dispersed active sites, characterized by high activity and operation stability in many catalytic reactions. The main advantage of GFCs is their unusual engineering properties. It relates to their mechanical flexibility, which opens the way for the creation of new types of the structured catalytic beds with the improved heat and mass transfer, low pressure drop, and high resistance to mechanical and thermal shocks. The proposed GFCs have a high potential for the use in the processes of oxidation of carbon monoxide, deep oxidation of volatile organic compounds, reduction of nitrogen oxides, oxidation of SO2, and selective oxidation of Hydrogen sulfide.
