Patent ID: 7374942
Filing Date: 2008-05-20
Classification: B01J,C40B,G01N,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A process for determining catalytic properties of individual building blocks of a material library disposed on a substrate provided in a housing, the process comprising: introducing a starting material to the building blocks to carry out a chemical or physical or chemical and physical conversion of the starting material and obtain for each building block an effluent stream containing a conversion product and/or the starting material; simultaneously measuring, with a first sensor, a temperature or temperature change of each building block; determining, automatically by a data processing system, which of the building blocks to include in a subset of the building blocks by comparing the temperature or temperature change with a predetermined limit value, the subset including fewer than all of the building blocks measured with the first sensor; and measuring, with a second sensor, a further parameter which is indicative of the selectivity of each of the building blocks in only the subset, wherein the selectivity is measured in the respective effluent streams by determining a concentration of the desired product, or a concentration of the parallel products and a residual concentration of the starting materials; wherein the first sensor and the second sensor are configured so as to be capable of conducting measurements with respect to the building blocks when the building blocks are supported on the substrate in the housing.