Published November 1996 | Version v1
Journal article

Environmental catalysis

Description

The term environmental catalysis has been used lately to refer to a variety of applications of the catalysis, those which, they have grouped in the following categories: a) Control of emissions (chimney Gases and gases of the vehicles, Compound Organic Volatile (VOC), Scents, Chlorofluorocarbons) b) Conversion of having undone solids or liquids. C) Selective obtaining of alternating products that replace polluting compounds. d)replacement of catalysis environmentally dangerous And e)Development of catalysts for the obtaining of valuable chemical products without the formation of polluting by-products. In the group of Environmental Catalysis comes working in the first category, Particularly, in the exploration of active catalysts in the decrease of the emissions coming from combustion systems, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides (NOx), N20 and sulfur (SOx). Our fundamental premise is that the molecular meshes are catalytic potential for the development of a technology environmentally clean. These materials understand a class of inorganic compound with unique properties and intimately related with the structure. The net of the molecular meshes consists on tetrahedral configuration atoms (Al,Si, P, etc.) united to each other by oxygen atoms. As a result they are not formed three-dimensional structures alone with channels and cavities but also, with openings bounded by rings that consist of a certain number of tetrahedral atoms

Additional details

Additional titles

Original title (Spanish)
Catalisis ambiental

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Revista Facultad de Ingenieria Universidad de Antioquia
Journal Volume
8
Journal Issue
3
Journal Page Range
p. 75-80
ISSN
0120-6230

INIS

Country of Publication
Colombia
Country of Input or Organization
Colombia
INIS RN
31059064
Subject category
S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES;
Descriptors DEI
CARBON MONOXIDE; CATALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS; HYDROCARBONS
Descriptors DEC
CARBON COMPOUNDS; CARBON OXIDES; CHALCOGENIDES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; OXIDES; OXYGEN COMPOUNDS