Christoph Gross
PhD Student
Catalysis Research Center and Chemistry Department
Technische Universität München
Lichtenbergstraße 4 85747 Garching, Germany
Curriculum
| since 04/2021 | PhD student supervised by Prof. Johannes A. Lercher, Lehrstuhl für Technische Chemie II, TUM |
| 10/2020-02/2021 | Internship at Clariant Produkte (Deutschland) GmbH |
| 10/2018-02/2021 | Master of Science (chemistry), TUM |
| 10/2015-09/2018 | Bachelor of Science (chemistry), TUM |
| 07/2014-01/2015 | Military service |
| 2014 | Matura at Höhere Technische Bundeslehranstalt Weiz |
High Pressure Ring Opening using supported NiWMo catalysts
The interest in investigating the removal of polynuclear aromatics from fuel has steadily increased over the last few decades as an effort to decrease fossil fuel's environmental impact. While commercially available catalysts usually utilize hydrogenating agents based on one or more noble metals and are very susceptible to impurities in the feed, supported mixed metal sulfides show significantly higher tolerances towards contaminants. The main goal of my thesis is to investigate these mixed metal catalysts, especially their ring-opening behavior at varying conditions. Catalysts will be synthesized, characterized and subsequently tested in high-pressure trickle bed reactors to investigate the influence of metal composition (Ni, W, Mo), as well as pressure, temperature, and spacetime, on the selectivity towards ring opening of decalin.