Catalyst alumina supported

For ethanolamine, the dispersion, distribution, and activity all increase but at the higher pH the metal is completely displaced towards the pellet interior. This leaves a marginal zone devoid of metal and a marked decrease occurs in both activity and dispersion, as diffusiohal resistance becomes more important and as the surface concentration of metal in the pellet interior increases. These effects may readily be explained by the high pH of the external solution, which would tend to reduce the anionic-exchange capacity of the support. 

Cationic exchange of platinum as Pt(NH3)4(OH)2 with alumina has also been reported. Here, in contrast to the above results, metal adsorption only occurred at a high pH, greater than 9. A particularly interesting aspect 

A very wide range of co-ingredients for chloroplatinic acid impregnation 

Other workers have given results for the adsorption of a wide range of platinum-group metal complexes and have related the rapid rate of adsorption to the extent of surface impregnation. They attempt to correlate the rate 

Harrison, J. Heffer, and F. King, Preprints 7th Int. Congr. on Catalyks, B2, Tokyo. 

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Toluene reacts with carbon monoxide and butene-1 under pressure in the presence of hydrogen fluoride and boron trifluoride to give 4-methyl-j iYbutyrophenone which is reduced to the carbinol and dehydrated to the olefin. The latter is cycHzed and dehydrogenated over a special alumina-supported catalyst to give pure 2,6- dim ethyl n aph th a1 en e, free from isomers. It is also possible to isomerize various dim ethyl n aph th a1 en es to the... 

Top silica-supported catalysts bottom alumina-supported catalysts left 25,000 space velocity and right 95,000 space velocity... 

The catalyst powders were compressed to thin disks under a pressure of about 50 kg/cm2, with the exception of the alumina-supported catalysts which required a pressure of 1500 kg/cm2 to obtain reasonable transmittance. The samples were reduced in a stream of hydrogen supplied at a rate of 10 1 hr-1 (SV 30,000 hr-1). The temperatures of reduction were 350°-450°C for the nickel samples, 475°C for the palladium samples, and 425°C for the iridium catalysts. 

Ethanol can be derived from biomass by means of acidic/enzymatic hydrolysis or also by thermochemical conversion and subsequent enzymatic ethanol formation. Likewise for methanol, hydrogen can be produced from ethanol with the ease of storage/transportation and an additional advantage of its nontoxicity. Apart from thermodynamic studies on hydrogen from ethanol steam reforming,117-119 catalytic reaction studies were also performed on this reaction using Ni-Cu-Cr catalysts,120 Ni-Cu-K alumina-supported catalysts,121 Cu-Zn alumina-supported catalysts,122,123 Ca-Zn alumina-supported catalysts,122 and Ni-Cu silica-supported catalysts.123... 

Whereas the effect of water on deactivation and on the overall activity of the FTS varies with the support, similar effects of water on the selectivity is reported for all catalysts, to a certain degree independent of the support, promoter and conditions. The effect can be summarized as an increase in C5 + selectivity, a decrease in methane selectivity, and in some instances a weak enhancement of the C02 selectivity is observed. Fig. 4 illustrates the effect on the C5 + and methane selectivity of adding water to cobalt catalysts supported on alumina, silica and titania, and both unpromoted and Re-promoted catalysts are shown. At the outset these selectivities are strong functions of the conversion, the C5 + selectivity increasing and the methane decreasing with increasing conversion, as illustrated by the trendlines in the figures. The points for methane are below, and C5 + -selectivity is above the line when water is added. Similar results were reported by many authors for alumina-supported catalysts,16-19 23 30 silica-supported catalysts,30 37 46-48 and titania-supported catalysts.19 30... 

The previous EXAFS studies were restricted to supported catalysts. Furthermore, the structural properties determined by MES and EXAFS were mainly related to the HDS activity and not to the other catalytic functions. Presently, we will report EXAFS (both Mo and Co), MES, HDS and hydrogenation activity studies of unsupported Co-Mo catalysts. These catalysts have been prepared by the homogeneous sulfide precipitation method (l8) which permits large amounts of Co to be present as Co-Mo-S. The choice of unsupported catalysts allows one to avoid some of the effects which inherently will be present in alumina supported catalysts, where support interactions may result in both structural and catalytic complexities. 

An analysis of the coordination numbers gives further understanding of the nature of the MoS2-like structure. For the catalyst recorded in situ it is seen that the first coordination shell contains about 6 atoms (Table II) which are in agreement with the 6 nearest neighbor sulfur atoms in well-crystallized MoS2. A similar result was previously obtained for alumina supported catalysts (12). 

In alumina supported catalysts, a reduced second shell contri-... 

Mayoral and colleagues210 studied the same reaction catalyzed by a menthoxyaluminum catalyst supported on silica gel and alumina. The catalyst was prepared by treatment of the solid support with diethylaluminum chloride and (—)-menthol. The silica-supported catalyst proved more active than the alumina-supported catalyst. The reaction rates and enantioselectivities depended strongly on the amount of (—)-menthol used. The highest ee obtained was 31% at 81% conversion (endo/exo = 10/90). 

Sinfelt et al. (120) observed a twofold increase in the -heptane aromatiza-tion rate when the platinum content of their alumina-supported catalyst increased from 0.10 to 0.60%. At the same time, the rate of methylcyclo-pentane ring expansion remained constant. This result also serves as evidence for metal-catalyzed aromatization over dual-function catalysts without the participation of any Cg cyclic intermediate. The cyclization activity of platinum itself was independent of the nature of the support (109). Pure acidic cyclization prevailed with olefin feed (30, 109). 

Miyadera, T. and Yoshida, K. Alumina-supported catalysts for the selective reduetion of nitric oxide by propene. Chem. Lett., 1993, Volume 22,1483-1486. 

An ex-carbonyl K-promoted alumina-supported catalyst prepared from Ru3(CO),2 and decarbonylated under H2 at 450°C was more dispersed and more active and selective for C2-C5 olefins in the Fischer-Tropsch reaction than conventionally prepared samples [108]. 

Alumina-supported catalysts prepared using the bimetallic carbonyl precursors showed a better performance in alkene hydroformylation than conventional Co-Rh catalysts. This was related to the presence of highly dispersed Rh-Co clusters with frames corresponding to that of the parent carbonyl-precursor that were characterized by EXAFS [140, 183]. Silica-supported bimetallic entities RhCo3,... 

The presence of oxygen enhances the catalyst stability. Breen et al. [187] investigated SRE over a range of oxide-supported metal catalysts. They concluded that the support plays an important role in the reaction. In fact, they observed that alumina-supported catalysts are very active at low temperatures for dehydration of ethanol to ethylene, which at higher temperatures (550 °C) is converted into H2, CO and CO2 as major products and CH4 as a minor product. The activities of the metal decrease in the order of Rh > Pd > Ni PS Pt. Ceria/zirconia-supported catalysts are more active and exhibit 100% conversion of ethanol at high space velocity and high temperature (650 °C). 

Table V shows the results obtained for the carbonylation of dimethyl ether and methyl acetate with molybdenum catalysts supported on various carrier materials. In the case of dimethyl ether carbonylation, molybdenum-activated carbon catalyst gave methyl acetate with an yield of 5.2% which was about one-third of the activity of nickel-activated carbon catalyst. Silica gel- or y-alumina-supported catalyst gave little carbonylated product. Similar results were obtained in the carbonylation of methyl acetate. The carbonylation activity occured only when molybdenum was supported on activated carbon, and it was about half the activity of nickel-activated carbon catalyst.

In Figure 5 the conversion of 1-phenylethanol and the open circuit potential of alumina-supported catalysts are plotted as a function of reaction time. There is a striking difference between the curves of unpromoted (a, a ) and bismuth-promoted (c, c ) catalysts. When air is introduced to the reactor, the potential of the platinum-on-alumina catalyst quickly increases to the anodic direction and after one minute the catalyst potential is above -300 mV. One may conclude that there is practically no hydrogen on the platinum surface and after a short period an increasing fraction of platinum is covered by OH. The influence of bismuth promotion is a higher reaction rate (final conversion) and lower catalyst potential during reaction. 

Table 8. Activities of Silica Gel and Alumina-Supported Catalysts for the Reaction of 1-Bromobutane with Aqueous KI118)...

In the nickel- and cobalt-catalysed reactions [166,207] it was observed that the butene distribution depended upon the temperature of reduction of the catalyst. For both powders and alumina-supported catalysts prepared by reduction of the oxides, reduction at temperatures below ca. 330° C gave catalysts which exhibited so-called Type A behaviour where but-2-ene was the major product and the frans-but-2-ene/cis-but-2-ene ratio was around unity. Reduction above 360° C (Ni) or 440° C (Co) yielded catalysts which gave frans-but-2-ene as the major product (Type B behaviour). It is of interest to note that the yield of cis-but-2-ene was not significantly dependent upon the catalyst reduction temperature with either metal. 

Recently we have proposed an HDS catalytic treatment based on sodium-doped CoMo catalysts [Ref. 1-3]. Previous studies concerned essentially alumina-supported catalysts. As carbon was shown to be a good support for sulfided CoMo catalysts [Ref.4], we decided to investigate the performance of carbon-supported catalysts in terpene HDS. 

Impregnation of cobalt and molybdenum (without sodium) increases largely the isomerizing activity of the catalyst the /3-pinene is then completely converted. The catalysts prepared with sodium molybdate and sodium hydroxide (Co-Mo-Na and Na-Co-Mo-Na) have lower isomerizing activities while their HDS activities are significantly increased. As in the case of alumina supported catalysts the sulfided CoMo phase protected by a double layer of alkaline ions on the carbon support gives the best results in HDS of /3-pinene. The behaviour of this catalyst was examined in desulfurization of the turpentine oil (40% a-pinene, 25% /3-pinene, 25% A -carene and 10% camphene + dipentene + myrcene, 1500 ppm S). The results are recorded in Table 6. 

Bulk sulfides and silica-supported catalysts give appreciably less hydrogenation than the alumina-supported catalysts. 

A., Berresheim, K., Gnaser H., Porous alumina-supported catalyst coatings in steel microchannels, in Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Microreaction Technology, IMRET 7 (7-10 Sept. 2003), Lausanne, 2003, 276-278. Adomaitis, J. R., Galligan, M. P.,... 

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