Overview

Catalysts are essential for the production of clean fuels, such as low-sulphur gasoline and hydrogen gas for fuel cells. They are widely used in industry to reduce the cost of producing chemicals.

Why are new catalysts needed?

Many catalysts today are made of expensive precious metals, such as platinum, driving the need for improved, lower cost catalysts, like those developed by Oxford Catalysts.

Our catalysts have the potential to play a central role in the following markets:

• Petro/chemicals: removing sulphur from gasoline/diesel and converting natural gas or coal gas into ultra-clean liquid fuels
• Fuel Cells: generating hydrogen-on-demand from methanol starting at room temperature or from conventional hydrocarbon fuels by reforming at higher temperatures
• Biogas Conversion: transforming waste methane into the chemical building blocks of liquid fuels
• Portable Steam: creating superheated steam instantaneously from methanol and hydrogen peroxide