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THE CATALYST REVIEW (ISSN 0898-3089)
April 2020, Volume 33, Number 4
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In This Issue
Industry Perspectives
Sustainability by Decarbonization and Other Green Technologies..........................1
Commercial
A Push For 'Green' Crackers.................................................................................... 2
Aramco in Talks to Raise $10-billion Loan to Help Finance Sabic Acquisition.........2
U.S., Saudi Arabia, Russia Lead Pact for Record Cuts in Oil Output.........................2
BASF Forms Partnership with China's Shandong INOV Polyurethane.....................3
Gazprom Neft Builds Large Refinery Catalysts Plant in Russia................................. 3
Nacero Selects Topsoe's TIGAS™ Technology for USD 3 Billion Natural Gas-toGasoline Plant......................................................................................................... 3
Oil-to-Chemicals: New Approaches from Resid and VGOs...................................... 4
BASF Introduces Fourtune™ Fluidized Catalytic Cracking (FCC) Catalyst to
Deliver More Butylenes for Refiners....................................................................... 4
Process
Scientists Fit Two Co-Catalysts on One Nanosheet for Better Water
Purification.............................................................................................................. 5
Going Small Yields Big Results................................................................................. 5
Chiyoda Looks to Double Propylene Yield, Cut Energy Consumption with New
Catalytic Cracking Process for Naphtha................................................................... 5
Acridine Radical Acts as a Powerful Photoreductant.............................................. 5
Special Feature
Design of Reaction Kinetic Models for Scale Up...................................................... 8
Experimental
B-MWW Zeolite: The Case Against Single-Site Catalysis......................................... 14
Decarbonylative Olefination of Aldehydes to Alkenes............................................ 14
Hierarchically Ordered Porous Carbon with Atomically Dispersed FeN4 for
Ultra-efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction in Proton-Exchange Membrane
Fuel Cells................................................................................................................. 15
Enhancement of the Yield of Ammonia by Hydrogen-Sink Effect During
Plasma Catalysis...................................................................................................... 16
Movers and Shakers
John R. (JR) Regalbuto, PhD..................................................................................... 18

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