When Carl came to U. B., he "inherited" Sol Weller's laboratories. Sol's group had been doing some research on sulfur tolerant shift catalysis using promoted cobalt-moly sulfides. They had developed power-law rate models, but had not studied the effect of hydrogen partial pressure. We used Sol's equipment and catalysts to experimentally study this aspect of the kinetics. Later, when we first became interested in mechanistic kinetic modeling, we returned to the combined data set from Sol's group and ours and developed mechanistic kinetic models for the reaction.

“The Effect of Adding Co to MoS₂/Al₂O₃ upon the Kinetics of Water-Gas Shift,” C. R. F. Lund, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 35 (9), 3067-3073, (1996). [more info]

“The Microkinetics of Water-Gas Shift over Sulfided Mo/Al₂O₃ Catalysts,” C. R. F. Lund, Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., 35 (8), 2531-2538, (1996). [more info]

“The Mechanism of Water-Gas Shift over Sulfided Molybdenum Catalysts,” Workshop on Advances in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Catalysis and Surface Science, June 1996, Nanjing, China.

“The Microkinetics of Water-Gas Shift,” 1995 Gordon Conference on Catalysis, Colby-Sawyer College, NH, June 26-27, 1995.

“A Microkinetic Model for Sulfur-Tolerant Water-Gas Shift,” 14^th North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society, Snowbird, UT, June 1995.

Amaresh N. Ramaswamy, “Investigations on the Water Gas Shift Reaction, Effect of Hydrogen and of Catalyst Acidity,” M. S. Thesis, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Dept. of Chemical Engineering (1990). [more info]