Practical Considerations for Understanding Surface Reaction Mechanisms Involved in Heterogeneous Catalysis

D Kiani, IE Wachs - ACS catalysis, 2024 - ACS Publications
Acquiring useful knowledge about the active site (s) of a catalyst, nature of reactant–catalyst
interactions, nature of reactive intermediates, rate-determining step, reaction rate orders that …

Two-step thermal cracking of an extra-heavy fuel oil: experimental evaluation, characterization, and kinetics

M Ghashghaee, S Shirvani - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry …, 2018 - ACS Publications
This work deals with an efficient two-step thermal upgrading process for converting extra-
heavy fuel oil to light olefins (ethylene, propylene, and butenes) and fuels (gasoline and …

Molecular-level insights into furfural hydrogenation intermediates over single-atomic Cu catalysts on magnesia and silica nanoclusters

M Ghashghaee, M Ghambarian, Z Azizi - Molecular Simulation, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This paper addresses the geometrical, charge, topological, and thermochemical data for the
adsorption of the relevant furan species during hydrogenation of furfural to furfuryl alcohol …

Effect of Calcination Rate on Performance of Co-precipitated Cu-MgO Catalyst in Hydrogenation of Furfural

M Ghashghaee, S Shirvani, V Farzaneh… - Journal of Sciences …, 2019 - jsciences.ut.ac.ir
Co-precipitated Cu-MgO catalysts were prepared and evaluated for the gas-phase
hydrogenation of furfural. The effect of heating rate at the calcination step was studied by …

Hydroconversion of furfural over Cu-Cr/SiO2 nanocatalysts: a comparative study

M Ghashghaee, S Shirvani, V Farzaneh - Iranian Journal of Chemical …, 2018 - ijche.com
Furfural is one of the most promising chemical platforms with bright perspective with respect
to the production of biobased chemicals and fuels from lignocellulosic material. Globally, the …