Author : Camila Gomes Flores
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Book Synopsis Synthesis and Catalytic Performance of Metal-zeolite Composite Catalysts by : Camila Gomes Flores
Download or read book Synthesis and Catalytic Performance of Metal-zeolite Composite Catalysts written by Camila Gomes Flores and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zeolites are microporous crystalline solids with a regular pore system, which have found numerous applications in industrial processes such as oil refining, organic synthesis, adsorption and separation. Very small pore size of zeolites (~1 nm) imposes diffusional limitations for many catalytic reactions. The catalytic performance of metal zeolite bifunctional catalysts can be improved by creating hierarchical zeolites and by controlling localization of metal species within the zeolite crystals. Impregnation is an efficient method for the preparation of bi-functional cobalt-zeolite catalysts for the direct production of liquid fuels from syngas. In the catalysts prepared via impregnation, cobalt occupies the cation exchange positions in the zeolite micropores decreasing the number of acid sites available for hydrocarbon isomerization and cracking. Isolation of cobalt ions in cationic positions reduces catalyst reducibility, makes it difficult to achieve metallic state and decreases the amount available metal active sites for Fischer Tropsch synthesis. We found that the presence of Na+ instead of H+ ions in the exchange positions of the large pore Beta zeolite favored deposition of cobalt on the external surface of the zeolite, while the acid sites in the zeolite micropores were not much affected. The large pore cobalt Beta zeolite catalyst with cobalt species localized on the external surface and high concentration of acid sites in the zeolite crystals has showed enhanced catalytic performance in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis combined with hydrocarbon isomerization. Another approach of this thesis has addressed creating hierarchical zeolites with several levels of meso- and microporosity using sacrificial templates. Hierarchical zeolites synthesized using cobalt containing carbon nanotubes, as sacrificial hard templates exhibited higher catalytic activity, lower methane selectivity and higher selectivity to isomerized hydrocarbons in Fischer-Tropsch synthesis. The synthesis strategy based on metal carbon nanotubes as sacrificial templates has been extended to other metals such as nickel and magnesium. This new approach to the synthesis of metal-zeolite composite increases the mesoporosity and improves the catalytic performance in hydrogenation of aromatics and anisole acylation.