Abstract
The objective of the present contribution is to shed light on how new industrial applications of oxidation catalysis could develop in the future, with account taken of foreseeable fundamental developments. Many excellent review papers and talks have described the new challenges industry is faced with when catalytic oxidation is considered. Equally excellent review papers and lectures have dealt with the scientific aspects of catalytic oxidation. The aim here is not to summarize these articles. It is said that industrial innovation results either from a" push" or a" pull" action. The scientific advances constitute the" push", and the industrial challenges the" pull". Our wish is to provide insight on the way the push-pull process could operate in the next, let us say, 5 or 10 years, in the field of catalytic oxidation. Some scientists, like Professor Y. Moro-Oka, are of the opinion that the science of catalysis, in general, is driven by applications (strong" pull"). Industry, looking at the situation from the other side, indirectly suggests the same trend, in particular by saying that concepts are lacking (suggesting that the" push" is weak)[1]. However, given the number of novel catalysts, novel reactors and novel processes in the field of oxidation, it would rather seem that neither" push" nor
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Third World Congress on Oxidation Catalysis |
| Pages | 43 |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| State | Published - Sep 12 1997 |