Multiscale and Innovative Kinetic Approaches in Heterogeneous Catalysis.

Highlights from the article: Kinetics and reactor modeling for heterogeneous catalytic reactions are prominent tools for investigating, and understanding, the catalyst functionalities at nanoscale, and related rates of complex reaction networks. The objective of this special issue is to provide diverse contributions that can illustrate recent advances and new methodologies for elucidating the kinetics of heterogeneous reactions and the necessary multiscale approaches for optimizing the reactor design. Finally, two contributions report lab-scale experiments on structured catalysts, e.g., dense filamentous graphite [[7]], and illustrating the best practice at lab-scale through the comparison of catalysts in powder and tableted form to examine the impact of internal diffusion limitation on the determination of kinetic parameters.