Reducing Carbon Monoxide (CO) in challenging environments is key to keeping people in those environments safe, be it military, mining, or under-sea exploration. By performing fundamental research on the relationship between the preparation and performance of the catalysts used to remove CO from contaminated air, our researchers have developed improved processes by which CO can be removed.

Carbon monoxide is lethal to human life, especially in enclosed spaces such as mining and deep sea exploration so minimising carbon monoxide in these environments is crucial for human health and safety.

Led by Professors Stuart Taylor and Graham Hutchings, our researchers have not only improved the efficacy of these life preserving processes, they have also supported the commercialisation of these materials by Molecular Products Group, resulting in improved products, expansions in to new markets, and new jobs being created to support their manufacture and sale.

Publications

C. Jones, K. Cole, S.H. Taylor, M.J. Crudace, G.J. Hutchings, Copper manganese oxide catalysts for ambient temperature carbon monoxide oxidation: effect of calcination on activity. J. Mol. Catal. A: Chem., 2009, 305, 121-124.

C. Jones, S.H. Taylor, A. Burrows, M.J. Crudace, C.J. Kiely, G.J. Hutchings, Cobalt promoted copper manganese oxide catalysts for ambient temperature carbon monoxide oxidation. Chem. Commun., 2008, 1707-1709.

K.J. Cole, A.F. Carley, M.J. Crudace, M. Clarke, S.H. Taylor, G.J. Hutchings, Copper manganese oxide catalysts modified by gold deposition: the influence on activity for ambient temperature carbon monoxide oxidation. Catal. Lett., 2010, 138(3-4), 143-147.

Z. Tang, S.A. Kondrat, C. Dickinson, J.K. Bartley, A.F. Carley, S.H. Taylor, T.E. Davies, M. Allix, M.J. Rosseinsky, J.B. Claridge, Z. Xu, S. Romani, M.J. Crudace, G.J. Hutchings, Synthesis of high surface area CuMn2O4 by supercritical antisolvent precipitation for the oxidation of CO at ambient temperature. Catal. Sci. Technol., 2011, 1(5), 740-746.

Z. Tang, C.D. Jones, T.E. Davies, J.K. Bartley, A.F. Carley, S.H. Taylor, M. Allix, C.Dickinson, M.J. Rosseinsky, J.B. Claridge, Z. Xu, M.J. Crudace, G.J. Hutchings, New nanocrystalline Cu/MnOx catalysts prepared using supercritical antisolvent precipitation. ChemCatChem., 2009, 1(2), 247-251.

J.K. Aldridge, L.R. Smith, D.J. Morgan, A.F. Carley, M. Humphreys, M.J. Clarke, P.Wormald, S.H. Taylor, G.J. Hutchings, Ambient temperature CO oxidation using palladium–platinum bimetallic catalysts supported on tin oxide/alumina. Catalysts 2020, 10, 1223.