Chapter 1. Introduction
1.1 Historical background
1.2 Fundamental concepts and quantities in catalysis
1.2.1 Fractional coverage
1.2.2 Catalytic activity
1.2.3 Conversion, yield and selectivity
1.3 Importance of heterogeneous catalysis in today’s industry
1.3.1 Ammonia synthesis
1.3.2 Sulfuric acid production
1.3.3 Catalytic cracking
1.3.4 Polymerization of alpha-olefins
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Chapter 2. Fundamentals of the adsorption process
2.1 Physical and chemical adsorption
2.2 Thermodynamics and energetics of adsorption
2.2.1 Heat of adsorption
2.2.2 Binding energy of adsorbates
2.3 Kinetics of adsorption
2.3.1 Adsorption time
2.3.2 Adsorption rate
2.3.3 Potential energy diagrams
2.3.4 The Elovich equation in chemisorption kinetics
2.3.5 Desorption rate
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Chapter 3. Adsorption models, surface reaction and catalyst architectures
3.1 Adsorption isotherms and their classification
3.1.1 Langmuir isotherm
3.1.2 Henry isotherm
3.1.3 Freundlich isotherm
3.1.4 Temkin isotherm
3.1.5 BET isotherm
3.1.6 Potential theory of Polanyi
3.1.7 Recent approaches to model adsorption isotherms
3.2 Adsorption isobars and isosteres
3.3 Models for surface reactions
3.4 Catalysts, cocatalysts and supports
3.4.1 Catalyst supports
3.4.2 Co-catalysts
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Chapter 4. Surface area and porosity
4.1 Estimation of the surface area
4.1.1 Gravimetric and dynamic methods
4.1.2 Volumetric methods
4.2 Estimation of porosity and pore size
4.2.1 Dubinin-Radushkevich and the Dubinin-Astakhov methods
4.2.2 Horvath-Kawazoe method
4.2.3 Saito-Foley method
4.2.4 Barrett-Joyner-Halenda method
4.2.5 Dollimore-Heal method
4.2.6 Density functional theory
4.2.7 Mercury porosimetry
4.3 Hysteresis and capillary condensation
4.4 Pore models ¿ morphology
4.5 Mechanisms of diffusion within catalyst pores
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Chapter 5. Catalytic reaction engineering
5.1 Catalytic reaction steps
5.1.1 External diffusion
5.1.2 Internal diffusion
5.1.3 Adsorption
5.1.4 Surface reaction
5.1.5 Desorption
5.2 Reaction mechanism and the rate-limiting step
5.3 Catalytic reactor design
5.4 Diffusion and reaction in heterogeneous catalysis
5.4.1 Mass transfer-limited and reaction rate-limited reactions
5.4.2 Diffusion with reaction in a catalyst pellet
5.4.3 Thiele modulus
5.4.4 internal and the overall effectiveness factors
5.4.5 Weisz-Prater and the Mears criteria
5.5 Multiple steady states and thermal hysteresis
5.6 Catalyst deactivation and regeneration
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Chapter 6. Green heterogeneous catalysis
6.1 Conversion of biomass to biofuels
6.1.1 Biomass feedstock
6.1.2 Traditional thermochemical processes for catalytic conversion of biomass
6.1.3 Aqueous phase reforming for hydrogen and alkanes production
6.2. Electrocatalysis
6.2.1 Fundamentals of electrocatalytic processes
6.2.1.1 Types of electrochemical cells
6.2.1.2 Electrochemical kinetics
6.2.2 Water electrolysis
6.2.2.1 Hydrogen evolution reaction
6.2.2.2 Oxygen evolution reaction
6.2.3 Electrochemical CO2 reduction
6.3 Photocatalysis
6.3.1 Fundamentals of photocatalytic processes
6.3.2 Water and wastewater purification
6.3.3 Organic synthesis
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Chapter 7. Characterization techniques
7.1 X-ray diffraction
7.2 X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy
7.3 X-ray absorption spectroscopy
7.4 Electron microscopy 
7.5 Infrared and Raman spectroscopy
7.6 Temperature programmed methods 
7.7 Electrochemical techniques
7.7.1 Voltammetry
7.7.2 Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy
7.8 UV-visible and photoluminescence spectroscopy
7.8.1 UV-visible spectroscopy
7.8.2 Photoluminescence spectroscopy
7.9 Solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopies
7.9.1 NMR
7.9.2 EPR
7.10 Computational tools: density functional theory and molecular dynamic simulations
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