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ACCELERATED CATALYST DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM (ACDP)

Concept of the Accelerated Catalyst Development Platform (ACDP)

Catalysts are the workhorses of chemical transformations. However, our ongoing move towards sustainability demands novel, more efficient, and more robust catalysts, development of which is challenging and time-consuming via convectional strategies. A*STAR researchers from ICES, IMRE, and IHPC have therefore established an Accelerated Catalyst Development Platform (ACDP). Our technology benefits from the integration of key domains of science (see above representation) to innovate, discover, and develop improved catalytic processes at a pace more than 5 times faster for diverse, important applications, e.g. CO2 to chemicals & fuels.


CAPABILITIES OF THE ACDP

Zinsser high-throughput catalyst synthesis
Automated high-throughput catalyst synthesis. (Image courtesy of Zinsser Analytic GmbH)
hte modular high-throughput catalyst screening
Highly modular high-throughput catalyst screening. (Image courtesy of hte GmbH)

Our key capabilities include:

  • Automated high-throughput catalyst synthesis (16 parallel syntheses via methods such as impregnation, co-precipitation, and sol-gel)
  • High-throughput catalyst screening (16-parallel high-throughput reactor system, designed to operate in a wide range of temperatures, pressures, with gas and liquid feedstocks, and for plug-flow and trickle-bed operations coupled with online GC or offline analysis)
  • Various characterisation methods
  • Proprietary Machine Learning Algorithms (which guide the experiments and make predictions for optimal compositions and/or reaction conditions)
  • High-performance computations (which provides basic insights into reaction mechanism and electronic structures of solid catalysts via high-throughput catalysis simulation workflows)

 

APPLICATIONS

ACDP has already attracted attentions of prominent companies and we are working with some of them on interesting projects. Our broader application portfolio is shown in the image above and includes the following reactions:

  • CO2 hydrogenation
  • CO2 to fuels & chemicals
  • Fischer-Tropsch Reactions
  • Selective hydrogenations
  • Selective oxidation reactions
  • Hydrotreating and Hydrocracking
  • Alkylation reactions
  • Light alkane activation
  • Gas/Liquid reactions in trickle-bed

 

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