{"id":201445,"date":"2024-12-12T16:57:33","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T22:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/catalyst-breathes-new-life-into-acrylonitrile-production"},"modified":"2024-12-12T16:57:33","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T22:57:33","slug":"catalyst-breathes-new-life-into-acrylonitrile-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/catalyst-breathes-new-life-into-acrylonitrile-production","title":{"rendered":"Catalyst \u2018breathes\u2019 new life into acrylonitrile production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/catalyst-breathes-new-life-into-acrylonitrile-production3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of engineers is reimagining one of the essential processes in modern manufacturing. Their goal? To transform how a chemical called acrylonitrile (ACN) is made\u2014not by building world-scale manufacturing sites, but by using smaller-scale, modular reactors that can work if they let the catalyst, in a sense, \u201cbreathe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their article, titled \u201cPropene Ammoxidation over an Industrial Bismuth Molybdate-Based Catalyst Using Forced Dynamic Operation,\u201d is <a href=\"https:\/\/linkinghub.elsevier.com\/retrieve\/pii\/S0926860X24000292\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in Applied Catalysis A: General.<\/p>\n<p>ACN is everywhere, from carbon fibers in sports equipment to acrylics in car parts and textiles. Traditionally, producing it requires a continuous, energy-intensive process. But now, researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Houston have shown that by pausing to \u201cinhale\u201d fresh oxygen, a chemical <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/catalyst\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">catalyst<\/a> can produce ACN more efficiently. This discovery could open the door to smaller, versatile production facilities that adapt to fluctuating needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of engineers is reimagining one of the essential processes in modern manufacturing. Their goal? To transform how a chemical called acrylonitrile (ACN) is made\u2014not by building world-scale manufacturing sites, but by using smaller-scale, modular reactors that can work if they let the catalyst, in a sense, \u201cbreathe.\u201d Their article, titled \u201cPropene Ammoxidation over [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}