Abstract

Successful implementation of High throughput Experimentation (EE) tools has resulted in their increased acceptance as essential tools in chemical, petrochemical and polymer R&D laboratories. This article provides a number of concrete examples of EE systems, which have been designed and successfully implemented in studies, which focus on deriving reaction kinetic data. The implementation of high throughput EE tools for performing kinetic studies of both catalytic and non-catalytic systems results in a significantly faster acquisition of high-quality kinetic modeling data, required to quantitatively predict the behavior of complex, multistep reactions.

Keywords: Catalyst, high throughput experimentation, high throughput screening, kinetics, parallel screening, polymerization, chemical, petrochemical, multistep reactions, kinetic-quality data, highly-polar products, paramagnetic oxygen-detection, liquid-phase adsorption, olefin oligomerizaiton