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Title: Comparison of Pt/KL catalysts prepared by ion exchange or incipient wetness impregnation

Journal Article · · Journal of Catalysis; (United States)

Pt/KL catalysts prepared by ion exchange (IE), incipient wetness impregnation (IWI), and coimpregnation with KCl(IWI + KCl) have been characterized by dynamic techniques, chemisorption of H[sub 2] and CO. Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) of adsorbed CO, and catalytic tests using n-hexane (n-C6) and methylcyclopentane (MCP) conversions as probe reactions. Temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) shows significant differences between the IE and IWI catalysts. After calcination up to 400 C, the IWI samples contain Pt[sup 4+] ions that are reduced at 250 C, but IE samples contain PtO particles that are reduced at 11 C, besides two Pt[sup 2+] species with TPR peaks at 80 and 150 C. High resolution electron microscopy, adsorption, FT-IR, and catalytic results consistently show that, after reduction, the IWI catalysts contain smaller Pt particles located inside the zeolite channels, while the IE sample has larger particles, some of which are on the external surface. At high temperature, excess KCl reacts with zeolite protons, forming HCL which escapes. In comparison to the IE samples, the IWI catalysts are less acidic, less active for n-C[sub 6] conversion, more selective for dehydrocyclization, but less selective for hydrogenolysis, and they deactivate less. Since hydrogenolysis requires large Pt ensembles, the small Pt particles in the IWI catalysts produce less C[sub 1]-C[sub 5] compounds and less coke. The product distribution of MCP ring opening shows higher than statistical selectivity toward 3-methylpentane, suggesting that the MCP molecule becomes oriented inside the zeolite channels.

DOE Contract Number:
FG02-87ER13654
OSTI ID:
6975910
Journal Information:
Journal of Catalysis; (United States), Vol. 133:2; ISSN 0021-9517
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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