edited by F J J G Janssen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) & R A van Santen (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

This book brings together highlights of a theme which is growing in interest: the creation of a sustainable society using catalysis as the main tool. Catalysts play key roles in the production of clean fuels, the conversion of waste and green raw materials into energy, clean combustion engines including control of NO_x and soot production and reduction of greenhouse gases, production of clean water and of polymers, as well as reduction from polymers to monomers. Catalysts are also of prime importance in the developing H₂ and syngas production technology, aimed at producing clean fuels for the coming decades. And catalysts can be recycled.

• Catalysis and the Environment (R A van Santen)
• Catalysts for Renewable Energy and Chemicals, the Thermal Conversion of Biomass (F Janssen)
• Fuel Cells (J A R van Veen)
• Catalytic Processes for High-Quality Transportation Fuels (K P de Jong)
• Oxidative Coupling of Methane and Related Reactions (J H Lunsford)
• Methane Utilisation via Synthesis Gas Generation — Catalytic Chemistry and Technology (J A Lercher et al.)
• Towards Catalysis in a Sustainable Fine Chemical Industry (L A Hulshof)
• Catalytic Combustion (J W Geus & A J van Dillen)
• Water Treatment by Heterogeneous Photocatalysis (J-M Herrmann)
• Catalytical Removing Nitrate from Water (K-D Vorlop & Y Prüsse)
• Contribution of Catalysis Towards the Reduction of Atmospheric Air Pollution: Co₂, CFCs, N₂O, Ozone (A E van Diepen et al.)
• Emission Control from Mobile Sources: Otto and Diesel Engines (A E van Diepen et al.)
• Emission Control from Stationary Sources (F Janssen)
• Polymers, Back to Chemical Feedstocks (L A A Schöen & L C E Struik)
• Deactivation, Regeneration and Recycling of Hydroprocessing Catalysts (S Eijsbouts)