Issue 6, 1988

Cooperative effects in heterogeneous catalysis. Part 2.—Analysis and modelling of the temperature dependence of the oscillating catalytic oxidation of CO on a palladium Al2O3-supported catalyst

Abstract

The temperature dependence of the dynamics of the heterogeneous oxidation of CO on palladium supported by an amorphous Al2O3 carrier has been studied. The complex structure of the observed time series has been investigated by fast-Fourier-transform analysis. The resulting spectra are characterized by at most three frequencies, the ratio of which is nearly an integer, and by frequency locking. For lower temperatures sub-harmonics of these frequencies become important. The fractal character of the time series could be explained qualitatively by a one-dimensional automaton representing a concentration wave travelling on a fractal network of Pd particles in the catalyst bed.

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J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 1, 1988,84, 1751-1771

Cooperative effects in heterogeneous catalysis. Part 2.—Analysis and modelling of the temperature dependence of the oscillating catalytic oxidation of CO on a palladium Al2O3-supported catalyst

P. J. Plath, K. Möller and N. I. Jaeger, J. Chem. Soc., Faraday Trans. 1, 1988, 84, 1751 DOI: 10.1039/F19888401751

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