Structured catalysts for non-adiabatic applications

Although a number of advantages of structured catalysts over randomly packed catalyst pellets have been well known for many years, there is now growing interest in their potential for engineering the heat management in strongly exothermic or endothermic catalytic processes, primarily via an efficient heat conductive mechanism in their thermally connected structure. Herein we review the recent literature in this emerging field, addressing first conductive honeycomb monolith catalysts, and then metallic open-cell foams as well as metallic microfibrous entrapped catalysts.