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JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS
Volume 328, Issue -, Pages 165-172Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcat.2014.12.030
Keywords
Hierarchical porosity; ZSM-5 catalysts; Ethanol to hydrocarbons; Deactivation; Regeneration
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- French National Research Agency, ANR, (HiZeCoke Project) [2010 BLAN 723 1]
- Region Basse-Normandie
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The impact of the textural properties of H-ZSM-5 zeolites in the conversion of ethanol to hydrocarbons at 623 K and under 3.0 MPa pressure is investigated. We highlight that the lifetime of the catalysts is not correlated to the coking rate but to the number of pore mouths. The addition of macropores (fluoride leaching) or mesopores (alkaline leaching) to micron-sized zeolites is a simple approach to increase the number of pore mouths and reduce the diffusion path length of molecules in the micropores. However, the most efficient way is to reduce the zeolite crystal size to nanometers. The longest catalyst lifetime (>100 h) is obtained with a hierarchical nanometer-sized zeolite even though most of its acid sites are poisoned. The important impact of the nature of coke on the catalysts regeneration is also highlighted. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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