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Research at CSIRO, Clayton, Victoria
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Editor’s Note: We are grateful to M. Rosyneck, a close colleague and longtime collaborator of Jacks for supplying the above appreciation. Research at CSIRO, Clayton, Vlctorla The Clayton Laboratory of CSIRO is pan of the Division of Materials Science and Technology. Working in areas associated with catalysis are K Foger, M. Huang and P. Casey, whose expertise covers areas of surface science, materials characterisation, advanced catalytic materials synthesis, chemical engineering and processing, and reactor design. Current areas of interest include the partial oxidation of alkanes (including methane), catalytic combustion, catalytic distillation and NOx reduction/decomposition (all associated with potential pollution control measures), fuel cells, electrochemical reactions and catalytic materials development, including nano composite materials, pillared clays, layered materials, thermally stable oxides and mixed oxides, and high surface area rare earth oxides. Facilities include a large variety of reactor equipment and characterisation and analytical facilities (including SEM/TEM, XRD, XPS, EXAFS, STM, solidstate NMR, FTIR, etc.) Catalysis at the “lop of Down-Under” Situated in tropical Townsville, adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, James Cook University is the second largest university of Queensland (with ca. 3000 students), and serves the resource-rich north Queensland region (mineral, sugar and coal industries). The school of Molecular Science consists of three divisions, viz. Chemistry, Bioapplled catalysis A: general
chemistry and Human Physiology, and the Embryonic Chemical Engineering Division. Conventional catalysis has been carried out in a number of areas including natural gas conversion to methanol and syngas, alkene oligomerization and polymerization, oxidative dehydrogenation of alcohols and amines and (appropriate to the geographical location) photochemical catalytic reduction of carbon dioxide. A new inltiative in biological catalysis is presently being established in which recombinant DNA techniques will be applied to the production of enzymes for use in the food processing industry. GARRY FOULDS
Catalysis at the Unhrerstty of New South Wales
Catalysis research in the Chemistry Department at the University of New South Wales involves two different groups who maintain a close collaboration with each other and with colleagues in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry. Associate Professor Mervin Long has interests in the catalysis of tritium exchange with hydrocarbons, and in the activation of methane over aluminophosphate and zeolite catalysts. His group has recently demonstrated the abilii of metalloaded aluminophosphate to catalyse the methylation of aromatics with methane at high pressure and moderate temperatures. Professor Russell Howe works with zeelites and related materials, using principally spectroscopy methods (FT-IR, solid state NMR and surface analytical techVolume 105 No. 1 - 2 November 1993
Editor’s Note: We are grateful to M. Rosyneck, a close colleague and longtime collaborator of Jacks for supplying the above appreciation. Research at CSIRO, Clayton, Vlctorla The Clayton Laboratory of CSIRO is pan of the Division of Materials Science and Technology. Working in areas associated with catalysis are K Foger, M. Huang and P. Casey, whose expertise covers areas of surface science, materials characterisation, advanced catalytic materials synthesis, chemical engineering and processing, and reactor design. Current areas of interest include the partial oxidation of alkanes (including methane), catalytic combustion, catalytic distillation and NOx reduction/decomposition (all associated with potential pollution control measures), fuel cells, electrochemical reactions and catalytic materials development, including nano composite materials, pillared clays, layered materials, thermally stable oxides and mixed oxides, and high surface area rare earth oxides. Facilities include a large variety of reactor equipment and characterisation and analytical facilities (including SEM/TEM, XRD, XPS, EXAFS, STM, solidstate NMR, FTIR, etc.) Catalysis at the “lop of Down-Under” Situated in tropical Townsville, adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef, James Cook University is the second largest university of Queensland (with ca. 3000 students), and serves the resource-rich north Queensland region (mineral, sugar and coal industries). The school of Molecular Science consists of three divisions, viz. Chemistry, Bioapplled catalysis A: general
chemistry and Human Physiology, and the Embryonic Chemical Engineering Division. Conventional catalysis has been carried out in a number of areas including natural gas conversion to methanol and syngas, alkene oligomerization and polymerization, oxidative dehydrogenation of alcohols and amines and (appropriate to the geographical location) photochemical catalytic reduction of carbon dioxide. A new inltiative in biological catalysis is presently being established in which recombinant DNA techniques will be applied to the production of enzymes for use in the food processing industry. GARRY FOULDS
Catalysis at the Unhrerstty of New South Wales
Catalysis research in the Chemistry Department at the University of New South Wales involves two different groups who maintain a close collaboration with each other and with colleagues in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Industrial Chemistry. Associate Professor Mervin Long has interests in the catalysis of tritium exchange with hydrocarbons, and in the activation of methane over aluminophosphate and zeolite catalysts. His group has recently demonstrated the abilii of metalloaded aluminophosphate to catalyse the methylation of aromatics with methane at high pressure and moderate temperatures. Professor Russell Howe works with zeelites and related materials, using principally spectroscopy methods (FT-IR, solid state NMR and surface analytical techVolume 105 No. 1 - 2 November 1993