Isotopic tracer and kinetic studies of oxidative dehydrogenation pathways on vanadium oxide catalysts
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., CA (United States)
Kinetic analysis and isotopic tracer studies were used to identify elementary steps and their reversibility in the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane on VO{sub x}/ZrO{sub 2} catalysts with VO{sub x} surface densities between 1.6 and 6 VO{sub x}/nm{sup 2}. Competitive reactions of C{sub 2}H{sub 6} and CH{sub 3}{sup 13}CH{sub 2}CH{sub 3} showed that CO forms via secondary combustion of propene intermediates. CO{sub 2} formed via this reaction and also via the direct combustion of propane. Reactions of {sup 18}O{sub 2}/C{sub 3}H{sub 8} mixtures on supported V{sub 2}{sup 16}O{sub 5} led to the preferential initial appearance of lattice {sup 16}O atoms in all oxygen-containing products, as expected if lattice oxygens were required for the activation of C-H bonds. Isotopically mixed O{sub 2} species were not detected during reactions of C{sub 3}H{sub 8}-{sup 18}O{sub 2}-{sup 16}O{sub 2} reactant mixtures. Therefore, dissociative O{sub 2} chemisorption steps are irreversible. Similarly, C{sub 2}H{sub 8}-C{sub 3}D{sub 8}-O{sub 2} reactants undergo oxidative dehydrogenation without forming C{sub 3}H{sub 8{minus}x}D{sub x} mixed isotopomers, suggesting that C-H bond activation steps are also irreversible. Normal kinetic isotopic effects (k{sub C-H}/k{sub C-D} = 2.5) were measured for primary oxidative dehydrogenation reactions. Kinetic isotope effects were slightly lower for propane and propene combustion steps (1.7 and 2.2, respectively). These data are consistent with kinetically relevant steps involving the dissociation of C-H bonds in propane and propene. C{sub 3}H{sub 6}-D{sub 2}O and C{sub 3}D{sub 6}-GH{sub 2}O cross exchange reactions occur readily during reaction; therefore, OH recombination steps are reversible and nearly equilibrated. These isotopic tracer results are consistent with a Mars-van Krevelen redox mechanism involving two lattice oxygens in irreversible C-H bond activation steps. The resulting alkyl species desorb as propene and the remaining O-H group recombines with neighboring OH groups to form water and reduced V centers. These reduced V centers reoxidize by irreversible dissociative chemisorption of O{sub 2} The application of pseudo-steady-state and reversibility assumptions leads to a complex kinetic rate expression that describes accurately the observed water inhibition effects and the kinetic orders in propane and oxygen when surface oxygen and OH groups are assumed to be the most abundant surface intermediates.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 687743
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Catalysis, Vol. 186, Issue 2; Other Information: PBD: 10 Sep 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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