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CATALYSIS SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Volume 12, Issue 19, Pages 5795-5801Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d2cy01348g
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- European Union through ERC grant [741431]
- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO)
- MCEC (Netherlands Center for Multiscale Catalytic Energy Conversion)
- Advanced Research Center (ARC) Chemical Buildings Blocks Consortium (CBBC)
- European Research Council (ERC) [741431] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
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This study investigates the deactivation mechanism of zeolite ZSM-5 catalysts during the methanol-to-hydrocarbon (MTH) reaction using a combination of CFM and TEFL microscopy. The results reveal a preferential formation of coke species at the edges of ZSM-5 crystals within 10 minutes of the reaction, while the amount of coke species uniformly increases over the entire ZSM-5 surface after 90 minutes. Additionally, the TEFL imaging shows a higher formation of coke species at the crystal steps, indicating a higher initial catalytic activity.
The deactivation mechanism of the widely used zeolite ZSM-5 catalysts remains unclear to date due to the lack of analytical techniques with sufficient sensitivity and/or spatial resolution. Herein, a combination of hyperspectral confocal fluorescence microscopy (CFM) and tip-enhanced fluorescence (TEFL) microscopy is used to study the formation of different coke (precursor) species involved in the deactivation of zeolite ZSM-5 during the methanol-to-hydrocarbon (MTH) reaction. CFM submicron-scale imaging shows a preferential formation of graphite-like coke species at the edges of zeolite ZSM-5 crystals within 10 min of the MTH reaction (i.e., working catalyst), whilst the amount of graphite-like coke species uniformly increased over the entire zeolite ZSM-5 surface after 90 min (i.e., deactivated catalyst). Furthermore, TEFL nanoscale imaging with similar to 35 nm spatial resolution revealed that formation of coke species on the zeolite ZSM-5 surface is non-uniform and a relatively larger amount of coke is formed at the crystal steps, indicating a higher initial catalytic activity.
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