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ACS ENERGY LETTERS
Volume 7, Issue 4, Pages 1462-1468Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsenergylett.2c00467
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- Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2018YFA0704503]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [91945302, 22008234, 22002153]
- Dalian High-level Talent Innovation Program [2021RQ111]
- Youth Innovation Promotion Association of Chinese Academy of Sciences [2019184]
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This study reports a new catalyst with a high ratio of isoparaffins/normal paraffins for the synthesis of gasoline-range hydrocarbons from syngas. The gasoline quality can be adjusted by modulating the concentration of external acid sites, leading to the formation of multi-branched isomers with higher octane numbers.
Isoparaffins are preferred components of high-qualitygasoline because they are much more environmentally friendly as octanenumber contributors than olefins or aromatics. We report here anunprecedentedly high ratio of isoparaffins/normal paraffins (iso/n-paraffin ratio) of 48 in the one-step synthesis of gasoline-rangehydrocarbons from syngas, enabled by a ZnAlOx-SAPO-11 compositecatalyst. Infrared characterization of SAPO-11 upon the adsorption of2,6-DTBPy and a cracking reaction of 1,3,5-TIPB demonstrate that theiso/n-paraffin ratio is almost linearly correlated with the concentration ofexternal acid sites and the sites located near the pore mouths. Inparticular, the formation of multi-branched isomers, which generallyexhibit a higher octane number, is significantly facilitated. A 150 h time-on-stream test indicates rather stable activity in syngas-to-gasoline. Thesefindings provide a general approach for tuning the gasoline quality bymodulating the acid site distribution of zeolites (zeotypes), that is, the concentration of external acid sites.
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