Professor Spivey is the McLaurin Shivers Professor of Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University and Director of the DOE Energy Frontier Research Center at LSU. Professor Spivey's research interests include the application of the principles of heterogeneous catalysis to catalytic combustion, control of sulfur and nitrogen oxides from combustion processes, acid/base catalysis (e.g., for condensation reactions), hydrocarbon synthesis, and the study of catalyst deactivation.

• Chapter 1: Fischer-Tropsch synthesis on cobalt catalysts: the effect of water;Chapter 2: Catalytic strategies for improving specific fuel properties;Chapter 3: Advances in catalysis and processes for hydrogen production from ethanol reforming;Chapter 4: A CO and H2 space time yield comparison of recent literature on methanol decomposition;Chapter 5: Low temperature water-gas shift catalysts;Chapter 6: Chemical mapping of chemical conversion in heterogeneous catalytic reactors using MRI;Chapter 7: Mechanistic studies of electrocatalytic reactions;Chapter 8: Non-precious metal oxygen reduction catalysts for PEM fuel cells;Chapter 9: Nano-architecture and reactivity of Titania catalytic materials. Quasi-1D nanostructures