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4.3  Aalto University, Industrial Chemistry
Overview
The unit is moderately sized, consisting of about 20 persons, including one full-time 
professor, one half-time professor and five postdoctoral researchers. More than half of 
the funding is external and comes, in order of importance, from Tekes, the EU, 
industry, the Academy of Finland and graduate schools. On average, two PhD 
students and five Master’s students graduate each year.
Research profile
The research is focused on catalytic processes and in particular on the 
understanding of reaction selectivity and catalyst stability via evaluation of catalyst 
performance, catalyst characterisation and kinetic modelling. The main topics that 
have been pursued are the understanding of the role of sulfur in 
hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) reactions, the development of non-sulfide catalysts for 
HDO reactions, the development of noble metal catalysts for auto-thermal 
reforming of diesel fuel, new biocomponents from glycerol for gasoline blends, and 
the characterisation of porous catalysts based on kinetic modelling of TPD 
(temperature-programmed desorption).

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