David H. Olson
Adjunct Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering

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Research Area

Crystal chemistry and crystal structure of zeolites, structure-selectivity relationships in zeolite catalysis, diffusion controlled reactions, kinetic based light hydrocarbon separation.

Awards and Honors

• 2003 Thomas Alva Edison Award for the invention of "Selective Ethylbenzene Conversion", with J.S. Abichandani, J.S. Beck, P.T. Reischman, D.L. Stern and C.R. Venkat

Selected Publications

D. H. Olson, G. T. Kokotailo and J. F. Charnell, "The Crystal Chemistry of Rare Earth Faujasite-Type Zeolites", J. Colloid and Interface Sci. 28, 305 (1968).

D. H. Olson, E. Dempsey, "The Crystal Structure of the Zeolite Hydrogen Faujasite", J. Catalysis 13, 221 (1969).

D. H. Olson, W. O. Haag, R. M. Lago, "Chemical and Physical Properties of the ZSM-5 Substitutional Series", J. Catalysis 61, 390 (1980).

D. H. Olson, G. T. Kokotailo, S. L. Lawton, W. M. Meier, "Crystal Structure and Structure-Related Properties of ZSM-5", J. Phys. Chem. 85, 2238 (1981).

D. H. Olson and A. Bisio, editors, Proceedings of the Sixth International Zeolite Conference, Butterworths, London, (1984).

D. H. Olson and W. O. Haag, "Structure-Selectivity Relationship in Xylene Isomerization and Selective Toluene Disproportionation", Catalytic Materials - Relationship Between Structure and Reactivity, ACS Symp. Ser. 248, 276 (1984).

R. M. Lago, W.O. Haag, R.J. Mikovsky, D.H. Olson, S.D. Hellring, K.D. Schmitt, and G.T. Kerr, "The Nature of the Catalytic Sites in HZSM-5 - Activity Enhancement", Proc. of the 7th IZC (Tokyo) p. 677, 1986.

J.S. Beck, J.C. Vartuli, W.J. Roth, M.E. Leonowicz, C.T. Kresge, K.D. Schmitt, C.T.-W. Chu, D.H. Olson, E.W. Sheppard, S. B. McCullen, J.B. Higgins, J.L. Schlenker, "A New Family of Mesoporous Molecular Sieves Prepared with Liquid Crystal Templates", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 114, 10834 (1992).

D.H. Olson and P.T. Reischman, "Structure-related paraffin sorption in ZSM-5", Zeolites 17, 434 (1996).

D.H. Olson, S.A. Zygmunt, M.K. Erhardt, L.A. Curtiss and L.E. Iton, "Evidence for dimeric and tetrameric water clusters in HZSM-5", Zeolites 18, 347 (1997).

A.G. Palkhiwala, Y.H. Lin, D.D. Perlmutter and D.H. Olson, "Liquid Phase Separation of Polar Hydrocarbons from Light Aromatics Using Zeolites", Adsorption, 5, 399 (1999).

L. Zhu, K. Seff, D.H. Olson, B.J. Cohen and R.B. von Dreele, "Hydronium Ions in Zeolites. 1. Sturctures of Partially and Fully Dehydrated Na,H3O - X by X-ray and Neutron Diffraction", J. Phys. Chem. B 103, 10,365 (1999).

D.H. Olson, W.O. Haag and W.S. Borghard, "Use of Water as a Probe of Zeolitic Properties: Interaction of Water with HZSM-5", Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 35-36, 435 (2000).

H. Du, M. Kalyanaraman, M.A. Camblor and D.H. Olson, "Hydrocarbon sorption properties of pure silica MCM-22 type zeolite", Micro. & Mesopor. Mater. 40, 305 (2000).

Ch. Baerlocker, W.M. Meier and D.H. Olson, Atlas Of Zeolite Structure Types, , 5th edition, Elsevier, London, 2001.

D.H. Olson, B.H. Toby and B. Reisner, "Neutron Diffraction Study of Protons in four lanthanum exchanged X and LSX zeolites", Proceedings of the 13th IZC, 2001.

H. Du and D.H. Olson, "Surface Acidic Properties of A HMCM-22 Zeolite: Collidine Poisoning and Hydrocarbon Adsorption Studies", J. Phys. Chem. B 106, 395 (2002).

L. Pan, H. Liu, X. Lei, X. Huang, D.H. Olson, N.J. Turro and J. Li, "A Recyclable Nanoporous Material Suitable for Ship-In-Bottle Synthesis and Large Hydrocarbon Sorption", Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., 42, 542 (2003).

L. Pan, H. Liu, S.P. Kelly, X. Huang, D.H. Olson and J. Li, "RPM-2: A Recyclable Porous Material with Unusual Adsorption Capability: Self Assembly Via Structural Transformations", Chem. Commun. 854 (2003).

H. Liu, G.H. Kuehl, I. Halasz, and D.H. Olson, "Quantifying the n-Hexane Cracking Activity of Fe- and Al-based Acid Sites in H-ZSM-5", J. Catal. 218, 155 (2003).

P.A. Barrett, T. Boix, M. Puche, D.H. Olson, E. Jordan, H. Koller and M.A. Cambor, "ITQ-12: A New Microporous Silica Polymorph Potentially Useful for Light Hydrocarbon Separations", Chem. Commun., 2114 (2003).