Catalysis by zeolites - active sites, kinetics, mechanisms
- Mobile Research and Development Corporation, Princeton, NJ (USA)
In the past twenty five years, zeolites have become very important catalysts for the petroleum and petrochemical industry as a result of their high activity and shape selectivity. They have also enabled us to gain new insight into fundamental aspects of acid catalysts and to rationally design new catalysts. In contrast to large pore zeolites such as faujasite and mordenite, medium pore zeolites such as ZSM-5 exhibit very much lower catalyst deactivation rates. Our studies indicate that this is largely a consequence of their much lower activity for hydrogen transfer as a result of steric inhibition of this bimolecular reaction. High SiO{sub 2}/Al{sub 2}O{sub 3} zeolites can be prepared with well-defined catalytic sites of uniform activity whose number can be changed over four orders of magnitude. The most striking feature of zeolite catalysis is that of shape selectivity. It can result from the relative diffusion rates of various feed and product molecules or from a steric constraint of the reaction transition state. The distinction between the cause of an observed shape selectivity is of fundamental interest and has important consequences for catalyst design. Using medium pore zeolites we have identified a novel olefin interconversion reaction which equilibrates olefins to a pseudo-equilibrium mixture of all carbon numbers with a minimum of side reaction, and have elucidated its mechanism. A new process for the conversion of light olefins to gasoline, jet fuel and distillates has been developed based on this discovery.
- OSTI ID:
- 5238024
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8806304-; CODEN: ACPCA
- Journal Information:
- American Chemical Society, Division of Petroleum Chemistry, Preprints; (USA), Vol. 33:2; Conference: Symposium on characterization and chemistry of tar sand, Toronto (Canada), 5-10 Jun 1988; ISSN 0569-3799
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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