Platinum indium bimetallic in silicalite: Preparation, characterization and use in the vinylcyclohexene transformation
- Institut de Recherches sur la Catalyse, Villeurbanne (France)
The discovery of bimetallic catalysts such as Pt-Re, Pt-Ir, Pt-Sn has been a major improvement in the reforming process. The metal support was chlorinated alumina. Another generation of reforming catalysts consisted of Pt supported on non acid zeolite, KL zeolite being preferred. Recently a patent from Mobil (1) claimed for the reforming of C{sub 6}-C{sub 8} n-alkanes a catalyst constituted by platinum on an indium silicalite; these solids are able to reform n-octane into ethylbenzene (EBZ) and styrene (STY). PtIn/silicalite catalysts were reinvestigated and the high performances of this type of material attributed to the existence of small PtIn clusters as well to the shape selectivity of the silicalite (2a). Also, it has been shown that PtIn bimetallic clusters supported on NaY zeolite was active and selective in the dehydrogenation of light alkanes but these materials suffered from fast deactivation (2b). In this work, we have extended the studies of the dehydrogenation-dehydrocyclisation of alkanes over PtIn bimetallic supported on silicalite to the reaction of vinylcyclohexene (VCHx) over these materials.
- OSTI ID:
- 468039
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960652--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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