Development of tools and methods for the high-throughput preparation of commercial heterogeneous catalysts

1. Abstract The usage of high-throughput preparation and screening tools is very beneficial for accelerating the development of heterogeneous catalysts. But a major point in industrial R&D is a smooth and trouble-free scale-up and commercialization after the catalyst is developed. Hence, the catalysts prepared in the high-throughput scale have to represent already the very complex structures and characteristics of commercial heterogeneous catalysts. Therefore, preparation methods and equipment had to be developed that take into account a high degree of parallelisation with reasonable sample amount to be representative for commercially produced catalysts. This development and its successful application to different types of industrially relevant catalysts are presented in this article.