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Chemical Technology

The Laboratory for Chemical Technology (LCT) integrates chemical science and engineering in its research on catalysis, polymerization, kinetics, reactor design and process design. LCT is part of the Department of Materials, Textiles and Chemical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University in Belgium and member of the Centre for Sustainable Chemistry (CSC) of Ghent University. LCT aims at research excellence and bottom-up innovation in the framework of technological, industrial, and societal challenges.

Publications

Influence of nitrogen on diamond growth in oxyacetylene combustion chemical vapor deposition

M. Okkerse, M.H.J.M. de Croon, C.R. Kleijn, G.B. Marin and H.E.A. van den Akker

J. of Appl. Physics

92, 4095-4102 (2002)

An extension of the preconditioned advection upstream splitting method to two-phase flows implemented for the 3D flow calculation in circulating fluidized beds

J. De Wilde, G.J. Heynderickx, J. Vierendeels, E. Dick, G.B. Marin

Computers and Chemical Engineering

26, 1677-1702 (2002)

Catalytic reaction and reactor engineering: Preface

G. B. Marin and Y. Schuurman

Chem. Eng. J.

90, 1 (2002)

Reply to Comments on "Kinetic modeling of coke formation during steam cracking

M.-F. Reyniers, S. Wauters, G.B. Marin

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.

41, 6213-6214 (2002)

Langmuir-Hinshelwood-Hougen-Watson rate equations for the transalkylation of methylamines

N.Staelens, M.-F. Reyniers, G.B. Marin

Chem. Eng. J.

90, 185-193 (2002)

Hydrogenation Kinetics of Toluene on Pt/ZSM-22

J. W. Thybaut, M. Saeys, and G. B. Marin

Chem. Eng. J.

90 , 117-129 (2002)

The kinetics of cyclization reactions on polyaromatics from first principles

V. Van Speybroeck, M.F. Reyniers, G.B. Marin, M. Waroquier

Phys. Chem.

3, 863-870 (2002)

TiO2 films prepared by DC magnetron sputtering from ceramic targets

H. Tomaszewski, H. Poelman, D. Poelman, D. Depla, L. Fiermans, R. De Gryse, M.-F. Reyniers, G. Heynderickx, G. B. Marin

Vacuum

68, 31-38 (2002)

V2O5 thin films deposited by means of d.c.magnetron sputtering from ceramic V2O3 targets

H. Poelman, H. Tomaszewski, D. Poelman, L. Fiermans, R. De Gryse, M.-F. Reyniers, G. B. Marin

Surf. and Interf. Analysis

34, 724-727 (2002)

An ab Initio Study of the Interaction of SCN- with a Silver Electrode: The Prediction of Vibrational Frequencies

F. Tielens, M. Saeys, E. Tourwé, G. B. Marin, A. Hubin, and P. Geerlings

J. Phys. Chem. A

106, 1450-1457, (2002)

Catalytic partial oxidation. Part I. Catalytic processes to convert methane : partial or total oxidation

M.-F. Reyniers, C.R.H. de Smet, P.G. Menon, G.B. Marin

CATTECH 6

4, 140-149, (2002)

Density Functional study of Benzene adsorption on Pt(111)

M. Saeys, M.-F. Reyniers, M. Neurock and G.B. Marin

J. Phys. Chem. B

106, 7489 (2002)

Steam/CO2 reforming of methane. Carbon filament formation by the Boudouard reaction anbd gasification by CO2, by H2 and by steam: kinetic study

J.-W. Snoeck, G.F. Froment and M.Fowles

Ind.Eng. Chem Res.

41, 4252-4265 (2002)

Steam/CO2 reforming of methane. Carbon formation and gasification on catalysts with various Potassium contents

J.-W. Snoeck, G.F. Froment and M.Fowles

Ind.Eng. Chem Res.

41, 3548-3556 (2002)

Reactivity and kinetics of polyaromatic hydrocarbons in elementary radical reactions

V. Van Speybroeck, K. Hemelsoet, M. Waroquier, G. B. Marin

J. Computational Methods in Science and Engineering

2, 7-10 (2002)

Density functional study of the adsorption of 1,4-cyclohexadiene on Pt(111): origin of the C-H stretch red shift,

M. Saeys, M.-F. Reyniers, G.B. Marin, M. Neurock

Surf. Sci.

513, 315-327 (2002)

Effect of Surface Non-uniformity on the Kinetics of Simulatenous Adsorption of SO2-NOx over Na-?-Al2O3 sorbent : a coverage dependent stoichiometry

A. K. Das, G. B. Marin, D. Constales and G.S. Yablonsky

Chem. Eng. Sci.

57, 1909- 1922 (2002)

Kinetic modeling of coke formation during steamcracking

S. Wauters and G.B.Marin

Ind. Eng. Chem. Res.

41, 2379-2391 (2002)