CHE 598 Seminar: Developing Catalytic Solutions for Future Automotive Emission Controls
About the event
SPEAKER:
Yuejin Li, Senior Principal Scientist, BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions LLC
BIOGRAPHY:
Yuejin Li is a Senior Principal Scientist at BASF Environmental Catalyst and Metal Solutions LLC and an expert on automotive emission control catalysts. He received his B.S. degree in 1982 from Tianjin University and Ph.D. degree in 1989 from Yale University. After a post-doctoral fellowship at University of Pittsburgh, he joined Air Products and Chemicals in 1990, where he conducted R&D work on various environmental and chemical catalysis topics. In 1997, he joined Engelhard Corporation, which became BASF in 2006. At Engelhard/BASF, his focus has been on developing catalytic solutions for automotive emission controls. For the past decades, his research has resulted in many commercial catalyst technologies used in passenger cars and heavy-duty trucks worldwide. His current activities, among other things, include developing catalytic solutions for new challenges facing internal combustion engines. He is the recipient of 2013 Award for Excellence in Catalysis from The Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York.
ABSTRACT:
Since the 1970s, automotive catalysts have provided enormous benefits to the society by eliminating harmful pollutants from vehicle exhaust emissions. With increasingly more stringent emission regulations and the need to limit carbon emissions, the automotive industry is facing many new challenges. At BASF, we are developing catalytic solutions to address the potential consequences of these challenges. In this seminar, I will discuss a few examples of our R&D activities in this regard, including new catalyst concepts and materials to improve precious metal efficiency, NOx reduction catalysts for H2 powered internal combustion engines, and N2O decomposition catalysts for automotive applications.