Heterogeneous Catalysis

Giovanni Palmisano is an Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at Khalifa University, where he leads the Photocatalysis and Reaction Engineering Lab. He has developed and taught the PhD level course “Heterogeneous Catalysis” in the last 7 years. He has been main advisor of 9 PhD and MSc students and, overall, he has 15 years of experience in photo- and electro-catalytic processes. His current research activities are mainly focused on photocatalysis applied to water, environment, materials functionalization, energy and organic chemistry. He is co-author of ca. 110 highly cited journal papers, seven patents, six books and six book chapters. He is associate editor of the Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering and reviewing editor of Frontiers in Chemistry among others. Samar Al Jitan is a Chemical Engineering Graduate at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi (UAE). Her current research focuses on developing efficient photocatalytic materials for the conversion of CO2 into fuels. Samar received her B.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from the American University of Sharjah (UAE) in 2015 and her M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from Khalifa University of Science and Technology in 2017. Currently, she is pursuing a Ph.D. degree in Engineering from Khalifa University of Science and Technology under the supervision of Dr. Giovanni Palmisano. Samar’s research interests and expertise include photocatalytic reduction processes, advanced oxidation processes, photocatalytic conversion of CO2, photocatalytic degradation of VOCs, photocatalytic wastewater treatment, synthesis and surface modification of photocatalysts, advanced material characterization and analytical chemistry techniques. She is the co-author of 3 book chapters, 2 of which are on photocatalysis. Corrado Garlisi is a Junior R&T Associate at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), where he moved after 6 years of PhD and post-doctoral activities at Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates. His current research focuses on the development of perovskite-based materials for water photosplitting. Corrado received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Chemical Engineering from University of Palermo (Italy). Before pursuing his PhD, he did a two-year fellowship at ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Development - in Brindisi (Italy). Afterwards, he joined Khalifa University of Science and Technology, where he received his PhD in Interdisciplinary Engineering. His research interests include smart glass, heterogeneous catalysis, advanced oxidation technologies, photocatalytic water treatment and nanotechnology. His expertise is mainly focused on thin film deposition by PVD and CVD techniques, optical, morphological, structural characterization of materials and catalyst testing. He is the co-author of 28 articles in peer-reviewed journals, 2 book chapters on photocatalysis and 1 US patent.

1. Introduction 2. Fundamentals of the adsorption process 3. Adsorption models, surface reaction and catalyst architectures 4. Surface area and porosity 5. Catalytic reaction engineering 6. Green heterogeneous catalysis 7. Characterization techniques