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Oliver Kröcher is affiliated with the Paul Scherrer Institute in Switzerland. Their research focuses primarily on chemical engineering, materials science, and engineering, with particular emphasis on subfields such as materials chemistry, catalysis, mechanical engineering, biomedical engineering, and renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

The main topics addressed in their work include catalytic processes in materials science, catalysis and oxidation reactions, catalysts for methane reforming, catalysis and hydrodesulfurization studies, industrial gas emission control, carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis, and zeolite catalysis and synthesis.

Frequent coauthors in Kröcher's publications are:

  • Davide Ferri
  • Maarten Nachtegaal
  • Adam H. Clark
  • Martin Elsener
  • Rob Jeremiah G. Nuguid

Kröcher has published extensively in several scientific journals, including:

  • Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • ACS Catalysis
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Catalysis Today
  • Topics in Catalysis

The following are selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Oliver Kröcher:

  • Recent progress in syngas production via catalytic CO2 hydrogenation reaction, 2021, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Electrochemical synthesis of propylene from carbon dioxide on copper nanocrystals, 2023, Nature Chemistry
  • Essential role of oxygen vacancies of Cu-Al and Co-Al spinel oxides in their catalytic activity for the reverse water gas shift reaction, 2020, Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
  • Recent progress in calcium looping integrated with chemical looping combustion (CaL-CLC) using bifunctional CaO/CuO composites for CO2 capture: A state-of-the-art review, 2022, Fuel
  • Stable Palladium Oxide Clusters Encapsulated in Silicalite-1 for Complete Methane Oxidation, 2021, ACS Catalysis

Best Publications

  • The State of the Art in Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx by Ammonia Using Metal‐Exchanged Zeolite Catalysts

    Sandro Brandenberger;Oliver Kröcher;Arno Tissler;Roderik Althoff

  • Influence of NO2 on the selective catalytic reduction of NO with ammonia over Fe-ZSM5

    Mukundan Devadas;Oliver Kröcher;Martin Elsener;Alexander Wokaun

  • Chemical deactivation of V2O5/WO3–TiO2 SCR catalysts by additives and impurities from fuels, lubrication oils and urea solution: Part II. Characterization study of the effect of alkali and alkaline earth metals

    D. Nicosia;I. Czekaj;O. Kröcher

  • The Significance of Lewis Acid Sites for the Selective Catalytic Reduction of Nitric Oxide on Vanadium-Based Catalysts

    Adrian Marberger;Adrian Marberger;Davide Ferri;Martin Elsener;Oliver Kröcher;Oliver Kröcher

  • Catalytic oxidation of nitrogen monoxide over Pt/SiO2

    Joël Després;Martin Elsener;Manfred Koebel;Oliver Kröcher

  • Screening of doped MnOx–CeO2 catalysts for low-temperature NO-SCR

    Maria Casapu;Oliver Kröcher;Martin Elsener

  • The determination of the activities of different iron species in Fe-ZSM-5 for SCR of NO by NH3

    Sandro Brandenberger;Oliver Kröcher;Arno Tissler;Roderik Althoff

  • Stable complete methane oxidation over palladium based zeolite catalysts.

    Andrey W. Petrov;Andrey W. Petrov;Davide Ferri;Frank Krumeich;Maarten Nachtegaal

  • Chemical deactivation of V2O5/WO3–TiO2 SCR catalysts by additives and impurities from fuels, lubrication oils, and urea solution: I. Catalytic studies

    Oliver Kröcher;Martin Elsener

  • Investigation of the selective catalytic reduction of NO by NH3 on Fe-ZSM5 monolith catalysts

    Oliver Kröcher;Mukundan Devadas;Martin Elsener;Alexander Wokaun

  • Time-resolved copper speciation during selective catalytic reduction of NO on Cu-SSZ-13

    Adrian Marberger;Adrian Marberger;Andrey W. Petrov;Andrey W. Petrov;Patrick Steiger;Patrick Steiger;Martin Elsener

  • Recent progress in syngas production via catalytic CO2 hydrogenation reaction

    Ali M. Bahmanpour;Matteo Signorile;Oliver Kröcher;Oliver Kröcher

  • Silica Hybrid Gel Catalysts Containing Group(VIII) Transition Metal Complexes: Preparation, Structural, and Catalytic Properties in the Synthesis ofN,N-Dimethylformamide and Methyl Formate from Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

    Oliver Kröcher;René A. Köppel;Michael Fröba;Alfons Baiker

  • MnOx-CeO2 mixed oxides for the low-temperature oxidation of diesel soot

    Kirill Tikhomirov;Oliver Kröcher;Martin Elsener;Alexander Wokaun

  • Flame-Made WO3/CeOx-TiO2 Catalysts for Selective Catalytic Reduction of NOx by NH3

    Katarzyna A. Michalow-Mauke;Ye Lu;Kazimierz Kowalski;Thomas Graule

  • The role of Brønsted acidity in the selective catalytic reduction of NO with ammonia over Fe-ZSM-5

    Sandro Brandenberger;Oliver Kröcher;Alexander Wokaun;Arno Tissler

  • Hydrolysis and thermolysis of urea and its decomposition byproducts biuret, cyanuric acid and melamine over anatase TiO2

    Andreas M. Bernhard;Daniel Peitz;Martin Elsener;Alexander Wokaun

  • Characterization and catalytic investigation of Fe-ZSM5 for urea-SCR

    Mukundan Devadas;Oliver Kröcher;Martin Elsener;Alexander Wokaun

  • Catalytic synthesis of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (OME): A review

    Christophe J. Baranowski;Ali M. Bahmanpour;Oliver Kröcher;Oliver Kröcher

  • Cu–Al Spinel as a Highly Active and Stable Catalyst for the Reverse Water Gas Shift Reaction

    Ali M. Bahmanpour;Florent Héroguel;Murat Kılıç;Christophe J. Baranowski

  • Characterization of Nb-Containing MnOx−CeO2 Catalyst for Low-Temperature Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO with NH3

    Maria Casapu;Oliver Kröcher;Max Mehring;Maarten Nachtegaal

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Elsener
Martin Elsener Paul Scherrer Institute
Davide Ferri
Davide Ferri Paul Scherrer Institute
Alexander Wokaun
Alexander Wokaun Paul Scherrer Institute
Maarten Nachtegaal
Maarten Nachtegaal Paul Scherrer Institute
Alfons Baiker
Alfons Baiker ETH Zurich
Thomas Graule
Thomas Graule University of Freiburg
Bernard Delley
Bernard Delley Paul Scherrer Institute
Laura Prati
Laura Prati University of Milan

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