Selective Oxidation Of Propane To Acrylic Acid Over Multi Metal Oxide Catalyst

Author : Xin Li
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ISBN 13 : 9781124883106
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Investigation of M1 Phase Molybdenum Based Mixed Metal Oxide Catalysts for Selective Oxidation of Propane written by Xin Li and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acrylic acid and acrylonitrile are important intermediates for producing a number of common chemicals and materials used in paints, adhesives, plastics, fibers, etc. Traditionally, their production has relied on propylene feedstocks, and replacing propylene with the cheaper and more abundant propane as the raw material has attracted a lot of research interest during the past two decades. Several promising catalysts have been discovered, and to date, Mo-V-Nb-Te-O mixed metal oxides are the most efficient for both propane oxidation to acrylic acid and ammoxidation to acrylonitrile. Two orthorhombic phases named M1 and M2 have been identified as the major components, and M1 is generally considered the key factor for propane activation. In particular, the [001] face of the M1 structure has been proposed to provide active centers and the valence distribution on [001] face is believed to play an important role in determining the reaction mechanism. However, the detailed mechanism is not fully understood. This has limited opportunities to further improve catalysts performance or design better catalysts by rational means. This absence can be related to the past failure of generating M1 phase alone in synthesis, and many catalysts studied previously were actually mixtures. Thus, in this work, we carried out investigations of the highly pure M1 catalyst focusing on the synthesis, catalytic behavior, and structural model development. The hydrothermal method has been shown to yield M1 phase with high purity at the expense of a more complicated procedure. The simple slurry method was used by us to synthesize catalyst samples. It is found that, besides M1 and M2, tellurium molybdate TeMo 5 O 16, V-substituted Mo 5 O 14 or (V, Mo) 5 O 14, and Mosubstituted V 2 O 5 or (Mo, V) 2 O 5 are also often formed together. The final phase composition can be significantly affected by nominal metal composition, slurry pH, calcination heating rate, etc. And the relative amount of each phase under different conditions can be directly correlated with respective V/Mo and Te/Mo ratios. Further, an additional purification step where the sample mixture is washed by H 2 O 2 solution was studied, and it is observed that concentrated hydrogen peroxide offers the most effective removal of undesired phases. A complete procedure for obtaining M1 phase in high purity has been developed. Synthesized M1 catalysts were characterized by EDS and XPS, and results suggest that the M1 structure shows high chemical flexibility and can contain vanadium to quite different levels depending on the nominal metal stoichiometry in the slurry. In particular, it is seen that the more vanadium in the slurry, the more vanadium in the final M1 structure. Additionally, no significant difference between the surface and the bulk was observed with respect to metal composition.