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MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS
Volume 220, Issue -, Pages 275-281Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2015.09.015
Keywords
n-Hexane cracking; Propylene; OSDA free beta; Dealumination; Lewis acid sites
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- green sustainable chemistry project of New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO)
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This work deals with the dealumination of organic structure-directing agent (USDA) free beta (OFB) zeolite by different methods to change its acid amount and enhance its catalytic performance in n-hexane cracking. The OFB zeolite was pre-treated with ammonium hexafluorosilicate (AHFS) solution, steaming, or concentrated NH4NO3 (ca. 10 M) followed by calcination at high temperature. Then, thus pre-treated OFB samples can be effectively dealuminated by acid treatment with the structure retained. The H-form OFB (HOFB) and dealuminated OFB (DOFB) catalysts were characterized by using X-ray diffraction, N-2 adsorption-desorption, SEM, ICP, NH3-TPD, Si-29 and Al-22 MAS NMR, and pyridine adsorption FT-IR. In the catalytic cracking of n-hexane, the DOFB catalysts showed a higher propylene selectivity and a longer catalytic life than the parent Al-rich HOFB catalyst. This would be attributed to the lower amount of acid sites, especially the Lewis acid sites, which suppressed the secondary reaction of propylene and butenes and the hydride transfer to form coke. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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