Shea Lerk studied the kinetics of water-gas shift over gold supported on ferrochrome for her M. Eng. project. She developed a power-law kinetic model for the rate of reaction, accounting for the rapid deactivation of the catalyst under reaction conditions.

“A Rate Expression for Water-Gas Shift over a Gold/Ferrochrome Catalyst,” G. N. Vajani, S. L. Ng and C. R. F. Lund, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 50 (18), 10493-10499 (2011). [more info]