Water-Tolerant Solid Acid Catalysts

Solid acid catalysts have served as important functional materials for the petroleum refinery industry, such as in the cracking processes, and for the production of chemicals. Development of new water-tolerant solid acids would have a major impact in industrial applications. Okuhara covers the state of the art of water-tolerant solid acids, including zeolites, heteropoly compounds, oxides, mixed oxides, phosphates, and polymer resin-silica composites.