Dear Colleagues,

We would like to warmly invite you to contribute to the Special Issue of Catalysts entitled "Fluidizable Catalysts for Novel Chemical Processes".

Fluidizable catalysts offer unique opportunities to develop valuable new green and environmentally friendly catalytic chemical processes. Fluidizable catalysts frequently display the outstanding property of not being influenced in their performance, via intraparticle mass transport and heat transport processes, inside the catalyst particles. Thus, they provide a much more reliable catalytic performance than traditional non-fluidized bed processes. Fluidizable catalysts can be employed to degrade harmful and toxic pollutants. They can also be the basis of new processes, achieving chemical changes with lower energy demands, and consequently reduced environmental impact (e.g., CO₂ emissions). Another promising application of fluidizable catalysts is hydrogen production. The generated hydrogen can be used as a unique vector, able to make a source of green energy available to isolated towns and agricultural communities around the world.

Despite their promise, there are still major pending issues to be considered for successful catalyst and catalytic process unit scale-up. These issues can be addressed using a new generation of industrial-scale fluidized bed systems, with high feedstock throughputs, such as riser or downer catalytic units. It is anticipated that these low-particle-density fluidized beds can be engineered with closely controlled reaction times and reaction conditions (reactant partial pressures, temperatures, catalyst/reactant ratios), allowing catalytic reactions to take place, as expected and determined by reaction mechanisms and intrinsic kinetics.

The aim of this Special Issue is to report recent progress on the following key topics on fluidized catalysts: (a) their synthesis, characterization and development; (b) their kinetics and reaction mechanisms; (c) the observed conversion and selectivity; and (d) the new lean fluidized catalytic reactor designs, with high reactant throughputs.

We are presently accepting cutting-edge research papers, critical reviews and short communications. Papers can be supported with supplementary materials, such as videos and additionally provided data. We are looking forward to receiving your valuable research contribution.

Prof. Dr. Hugo de Lasa
Dr. Nicolas Torres Brauer
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Catalysts is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2700 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• catalysts
• fluidizable catalysts
• fluidizable catalyst synthesis
• fluidizable catalyst characterization
• fluidizable catalyst performance
• fluidizable catalyst kinetics