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4 NATIONAL RESOURCES FOR CATALYTIC RESEARCH
Pages 65-69

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... INDUSTRY The development of new chemical processes based on catalytic technology is carried out almost exclusively in industry and, to a much lesser extent, in national laboratories and universities. The commercialization of a new catalytic process is capital-intensive, and the time from the discovery of a viable catalyst for a new process to commercial plant start-up may be as long as 10 to 15 years.
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From page 66...
... This entire development process can easily cost tens of millions of dollars and lead to a new commercial plant that may cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Multidisciplinary teams of highly trained professionals are required with expertise in areas such as kinetics; organic, inorganic, and physical chemistry; process control; materials science; separations; and all of the fundamental unit operations of mechanical and chemical engineering.
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From page 67...
... This investment will pay off not only through the provision of well-educated young talent for industrial and other research organizations, but also through a continuing expansion of the reservoir of fundamental knowledge on which all researchers depend for new ideas and concepts. In recent years, federal support of university research has been supplemented to a small degree by industrial grants and contracts.
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From page 68...
... Support by DOE through national and other laboratories has also been responsible for the design, construction, and operation of major user facilities such as the synchrotron light sources at Stanford University, Argonne National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; the pulsed neutron source at Argonne National Laboratory; and the National Electron Microscopy Center at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Use of these facilities is available to researchers from academe and industry, as well as those working at the national laboratories themselves.
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From page 69...
... Technology transfer has also occurred through the employment of students and postdoctoral fellows who received their professional training while working at a national laboratory. Although issues of patents and patent rights have been an impediment to industrial support of research at national laboratories in the past, recent years have witnessed the development of more flexible contractual agreements.
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