Catalysts: We All Need One

Chemical Engineering is a field that continues to thrive, making significant contributions towards improving catalysts. Catalysts. An interesting word. According to the Webster’s Dictionary (which I am quite fond of), a catalyst is “an agent that provokes or speeds significant change or action.” Catalysts can be physical or psychological. In science, we often just think of physical catalysts to speed up reactions.  But society needs catalysts as well. Physical and psychological catalysts for more efficient alternative energy, proactive medicine, more inexpensive material synthesis, improving the environment, faster process reactions, and so much more. However, frequently, once researchers enter these fields, they often become separated from one another, removing the opportunity to collaborate. Collaborations need catalysts. This is so true especially considering the breakdown of collaborations that occurred during COVID-19. With conferences shut down, University labs closed, travel halted, and so much more, the world almost stopped collaborating during COVID. Catalysts stopped. Collaboration is so important, especially when seeking novel solutions to persistent traditional problems such as improved energy, medicine, green and sustainable materials, nanotechnology, and more. Often times, solutions to one field can help another. They are our catalysts. Yet, we do not know these solutions unless we collaborate, and…..meet. It is now time to make up for lost COVID time and take advantage of every conference available to us. It is time for catalysts to collaborate. I am pleased to encourage you to attend and welcome you to the 16th Edition of Global Conference on Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology (CAT 2023) with the conference theme “Expedite the Future Endeavors in Catalysis and Chemical Engineering”.   Whatever your field of expertise in Chemical Engineering, we all need a catalyst to find those solutions. We all need conferences as our catalyst. Let’s help each other serve as catalysts and discover some great collaborations and solutions to our greatest societal problems. I look forward to seeing you at this catalyst.

16th Edition of Global Conference on Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology

It is my honor and great pleasure to write a few welcome notes to you. Through centuries people were fascinated with the possibilities of synthesis of new materials with extraordinary properties. New materials are practically needed in all domains of life. Design and synthesis of new materials is one of the most important and interesting part of material sciences. Particularly a synthesis of new active and selective catalysts is a very important challenge. Our main aim concentrates on the new methods of the synthesis of single-site hierarchical porous zeolite catalysts with acid-base and redox properties. Such zeolite catalysts with active sites formed by incorporation of heteroelements in their framework are perspective as catalysts of protection of environment and biofeedstock conversion into valuable chemicals.

CAT-2023

It is my great honour and pleasure as an Organizing Committee Member and Speaker to invite you to join with a contribution to 16th Edition of Global Conference on Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology” CAT 2023), to be held as Hybrid Event in Valencia, Spain during September 14-16, 2023. The global summit will revolve around the theme “Expedite the Future Endeavours in Catalysis and Chemical Engineering” and provides a forum for exchanging the most recent research findings and innovative research methodologies. The Conference will include Keynote speeches and Invited speeches which will be given by Distinguished Scholars and Experts from academic institutions and industry, and oral presentation by delegates and poster presentations by young junior participants. Devoted to the rapid development of Catalysis and Chemical Engineering and Technology, the conference will bring together distinguished experts, researchers, scientist, scholars, and young students from different cultures and different countries, providing them with the opportunity to report, share, and discuss scientific questions, achievements, in these fields. This conference will provide excellent opportunity to meet distinguished scholars and experts and to exchange new ideas and application experiences, to establish research relations and collaborations for future research and projects. This conference has a wide range of Catalysis and Chemical Engineering from Catalysis and Porous Materials, Catalysis in Nanotechnology, Computational Catalysis to Catalytic Materials, Plasma Catalysis and Green and Sustainable Chemistry. International scientific activities are big scientific platforms for the scientists from all over the world to interact and communicate with each other. As a Committee Member, I believe that CAT 2023-Conference will provide this opportunity for delegates from different cultures and countries. Also, this conference will be performed successfully, in favor of the experienced and qualified scholar and with their valuable presentations. I am pleased to invite prospective authors to submit their original contributions to this important conference.

Dear CAT-2023 Visitors

It is an honor and pleasure to write a few welcome notes. Industrial-Scale Nanotechnology today makes unprecedented progress, in catalysis, energy, nanosensing, nanomedicine, materials science. The recent thrust for a decisive leap towards Green-Energy and Circular Economy opens new opportunities to adapt Industrial-Scale Nanotechnology to modern solutions via catalysis, to achieve Green-technologies and to introduce intelligent, differentiated methods to work against climate-crisis. It is not a coincidence that CO2-mitigation via H2-valorisation is diligently achieved in natural Photosynthesis. Since photocatalysis & electrocatalysis by nanomaterials  are based on processes that try to imitate nature, it is obvious that both Industrial-Scale Catalytic Nanotechnology and Artificial Photosynthesis basically could go together. A forward-looking leap via Industrial-Scale Catalytic Nanotechnology will be the future basis for success.

Dear congress attendants

Dear congress attendants. It is an honor and pleasure to welcome you to the 16th Edition of Global Conference on Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology. Heterogeneous photocatalysis using titanium dioxide represents a very important issue from the point of view of fundamental and applied science, offering new opportunities to combine science and technology for environmental purposes. The technology is optimal to remove especially recalcitrant pollutants from water such as heavy metals and metalloids, which cannot be treated by conventional methods. This low-cost technology is able to increase the knowledge of young generations and also to offer sustainable ways of controlling pollution in water, air, and soils.  I hope you enjoy this relevant Conference.

Dear Congress Delegates,

It is my honor to welcome you to this year’s CAT Global Conference. Catalysis plays a leading role in the Chemistry and Chemical Engineering disciplines. The impact of catalysis in modern industrial processes remains unparalleled. However, a historical overview on the catalysis field proves that the progress which has been made in catalysis did not keep up with a comprehensive understanding and a complete interpretation of its phenomenon. To that end, modeling and simulation of complicated catalytic chemical reactions contribute indeed in better studying and analyzing catalytic mechanisms. Afterwards, process engineering can successfully verify, validate, test and optimize the whole chemical process from A-Z facilitating significantly a process scale-up procedure. Seize the opportunity to attend such studies and presentations at CAT Global Conference.

Dear congress visitors

It is my honor and great pleasure to write a few welcome notes to you. Through centuries people were fascinated with the possibilities of synthesis of new materials with extraordinary properties. New materials are practically needed in all domains of life. Design and synthesis of new materials is one of the most important and interesting part of material sciences. Particularly a synthesis of new active and selective catalysts is a very important challenge. Our main aim concentrates on the new methods of the synthesis of single-site hierarchical porous zeolite catalysts with acid-base and redox properties. Such zeolite catalysts with active sites formed by incorporation of heteroelements in their framework are perspective as catalysts of protection of environment and biofeedstock conversion into valuable chemicals.

Dear congressional guests attending CAT 2022

It is an honor and a pleasure to write some welcome notes. Extractive Metallurgy today is making unprecedented progress, after several years of new "Chemical Engineering" methods for faster and more precise metal finishing. This opens up new opportunities to adapt modern processes to changing chemical reagents, to achieve higher productivity, and to introduce intelligent, differentiated methods of working against process pests. It is no coincidence that most of the mass process cultures in modern industry are derived from ancestral processes for outdoor heating. The inogarnic industry, seemingly incompatible with those trends, opens up alternative systems of finalization in relation to more exothermic processes and chemical reactions. Metal transfer and finalization and process advanced  are based on similar processes, it is clear that the two industrial strategies can essentially go together. Inorganic Industry - Chemical Engineering, based on Precision Chemical Processes will be the future basis for success.

Dear Distinguished Scholars, Engineers and Colleagues,

It is my great honour and pleasure as an Organizing Committee Member and Speaker to invite you to join with a contribution to 12th Edition of Global Conference on Catalysis, Chemical Engineering & Technology” (CAT 2022), to be held in   Paris, France during September 5-7, 2022 in a Hybrid format. The Conference will include Keynote speeches and Invited speeches which will be given by Distinguished Scholars and Experts from academic institutions and industry, and oral presentation by delegates and poster presentations by young junior participants.

Devoted to the rapid development of Catalysis and Chemical Engineering and Technology, the conference will bring together distinguished experts, researchers, scientist, scholars, and young students from different cultures and different countries, providing them with the opportunity to report, share, and discuss scientific questions, achievements, in these fields. This conference will provide excellent opportunity to meet distinguished scholars and experts and to exchange new ideas and application experiences, to establish research relations and collaborations for future research and projects. This conference has a wide range of Catalysis and Chemical Engineering from Catalysis for Energy, Chemical Kinetics, Heterogenous Catalysis to Catalysis in Nanotechnology, Plasma Catalysis and Green and Sustainable Chemistry. International scientific activities are big scientific platforms for the scientists from all over the world, and to interact and communicate with each other. As a Committee Member, I believe that CAT 2022-Conference will provide this opportunity for delegates from different cultures and countries. Also, this conference will be performed successfully, in favor of the experienced and qualified scholar and with their valuable presentations.

I am pleased to invite prospective authors to submit their original contributions to this important conference.

Dear scholars

It is my great honor and pleasure to welcome you to the CAT-2019 conference that promises to provide innumerable opportunities to network, share ideas and collaborate. Many important chemical reactions require inputs of energy to proceed. Catalysts, however, can promote these transformation by lowering the energy required to complete the reaction. It is hard to imagine the world today without the impact of catalysis on the fundamental aspects required for life, namely energy, food and water. To make a catalyst more efficient, a molecular level understanding of the catalyst material, the reaction kinetics, intermediates, active centers and pathways are important.  Modern diagnosis tools, in particular operando spectroscopies and imaging techniques that are capable of capturing reaction processes at critical length and time scales, have been or are being successfully developed to advance the field of catalysis science that we will be able to learn from this conference.    

Dear visitors of CAT 2019

It is a pleasure for me to write some welcome notes . Especially I want to draw your attention to the increasing innovation potential of combining chemical  science with process technology and engineering .

Some people  regard both  (organic and catalytic)  chemistry as well as process technology /chemical engineering as almost mature sciences. I find it interesting that at the interface of these sciences , innovation takes place at a high speed.

As a case in point : The capability to  3-D print reactors in various metals using  technologies at competitive costs , is now  established.  This  enables to unlock  the full potential of e.g. highly exothermic and/or very high (or low)  temperature and/or hazardous chemistries.  This has especially impact on pharmaceutical and other fine- and specialty chemicals fields. We come in an era where ‘the reactor design will follow the chemistry’ instead of the other way around ( ‘ batch reactor’).

Dear colleagues!

I am honored to greet you on the opening of the Catalysis 2019 conference. Catalysis currently occupies a leading place in various fields of chemical technology and environmental protection. The possibilities of catalysis are constantly expanding and they are aimed at obtaining energy carries, fuels and valuable monomers, playing an important role in sustainable development of society. In recent years, much attention is paid to the development of new approaches to obtaining highly active and selective catalytic systems, as well as to using of new raw materials for important products producing. Globally, chemical nanotechnologies are fully related to the development of efficient new generation catalysts what is linked to understanding of mechanisms of active centers evolution, which ensure high activity of important catalytic reactions. I express the hope that the conference will allow us to hold a fruitful discussion and exchange our views on important aspects of catalysis.