Catalysts, dehydrogenation selectivity

Acetone can also he coproduced with allyl alcohol in the reaction of acrolein with isopropanol. The reaction is catalyzed with an MgO and ZnO catalyst comhination at approximately 400°C and one atmosphere. It appears that the hydrogen produced from the dehydrogenation of isopropanol and adsorbed on the catalyst surface selectively hydrogenates the carhonyl group of acrolein ... 

A novel method for production of paraffinic hydrocarbons, suitable as diesel fuel, from renewable resources was illustrated. The fatty acid ethyl ester, ethyl stearate, was successfully converted with high catalyst activity and high selectivity towards formation of the desired product, heptadecane. Investigation of the impact of catalyst reduction showed that the reduction pretreatment had a beneficial effect on the formation of desired diesel compound. The non-pretreated catalyst dehydrogenated ethyl stearate to ethyl oleate. The experiments at different reaction temperatures, depicted that conversion of ethyl stearate was strongly dependent on reaction temperature with Eact=69 kj/mole, while product selectivities were almost constant. Complete conversion of ethyl stearate and very high selectivity towards desired product (95%) were achieved at 360°C. 

The additional requirement of the size of molecule with respect to the V — V distance in the active site is perhaps the reason behind the fact that propane and butane show not only different selectivity behavior, but also different dependence of the selectivity on the reducibility of the catalyst the selectivity for dehydrogenation in butane oxidation decreases rapidly with increasing reducibility of the catalyst (Figs. 6 and 7), but the selectivity in propane oxidation is much less dependent on it (31). 

G-41 A chromia-alumina catalyst, used for hydrodealkylation and dehydrogenation reactions G-S8 Palladium-on-alumina catalyst, for selective hydrogenation of acetylene in ethylene G-52 Approximately 33 wt % nickel cm a refractory oxide support, prereduced. Used for oxygen removal from hydrogen and inert gas streams... 

In the adiabatic oxyreactor, part of the hydrogen from the intermediate product leaving the reformer is selectively converted with added oxygen or air, thereby forming steam. This is followed by further dehydrogenation over the same noble-metal catalyst. Exothermic selective H2 conversion in the oxyreactor increases olefin product space-time yield and supplies heat for further endothermic dehydrogenation. The reaction takes place at temperatures between 500°C-600°C and at 4 bar-6 bar. 

Molybdate based scheelites have been intensively studied in this respect, one reason being that they are found with molybdenum in both the penta- and hexavalent state. Bismuth molybdates in particular are useful catalysts for selective oxidation of propylene to acrolein, propylene ammoxidation to acrylonitrile and the oxidative dehydrogenation of butene to butadiene. 

G-41 A chromia-alumina catalyst, used for hydrodealkylation and dehydrogenation reactions G-58 Palladium-on-alumina catalyst, for selective... 

More publications were found related to carbides. First, Suslick s early report [64] that certain carbonyls sonicated in a decalin solvent under argon. For Fe and Co, nanostructured metals are formed for Mo and W, metal carbides (e.g., M02C) are produced. Molybdenum carbide was used later as a catalyst. The selectivity and catalytic activity of the Mo and W carbides was examined in the dehydrogenation of alkanes [140]. Another carbide that has already been mentioned is that of Pd [65], which was prepared by Maeda s group. Iron carbide was a byproduct that served as protective layer in Nikitenko s work on air-stable iron nanoparticles [70]. 

The dehydrogenation of 1-butene over a chromia-alumina catalyst is selected as a model reaction system to study the fouling mechanisms and their respective fouling precursors. The reaction and deactivation schemes can be taken as ... 

This might be the dehydrogenation of a mixed feed of propane and n-butane, where the desired catalyst is selective for the K-butane dehydrogenation. Suppose that the temperature is constant and that both external and internal diffusion resistances affect the rate. At steady state, the rate (for the pellet, expressed per unit mass of catalyst) may be written in terms of either Eq. (10-1) or Eq. (11-44),... 

Example 11-11 An ethylene stream is fed to a polymerization reactor in which the catalyst is poisoned by acetylene. The ethylene is prepared by catal3d ically dehydrogenating ethane. Hence it is important that the dehydrogenation catalyst be selective for dehydrogenating rather than C2H4. The first-order reactions are... 

Examples of synergistic effects are now very numerous in catalysis. We shall restrict ourselves to metallic oxide-type catalysts for selective (amm)oxidation and oxidative dehydrogenation of hydrocarbons, and to supported metals, in the case of the three-way catalysts for abatement of automotive pollutants. A complementary example can be found with Ziegler-Natta polymerization of ethylene on transition metal chlorides [1]. To our opinion, an actual synergistic effect can be claimed only when the following conditions are filled (i), when the catalytic system is, thermodynamically speaking, biphasic (or multiphasic), (ii), when the catalytic properties are drastically enhanced for a particular composition, while they are (comparatively) poor for each single component. Therefore, neither promotors in solid solution in the main phase nor solid solutions themselves are directly concerned. Multicomponent catalysts, as the well known multimetallic molybdates used in ammoxidation of propene to acrylonitrile [2, 3], and supported oxide-type catalysts [4-10], provide the most numerous cases to be considered. Supported monolayer catalysts now widely used in selective oxidation can be considered as the limit of a two-phase system. 

Previous works have shown that copper catalysts are selective in the dehydrogenation of esters (5-7), in the hydrolysis of nitrile (8), in the selective hydrogenation of nitrile or in alcohol amination (10). The catalyst systems such as copper chromite are often used for the preparation of substituted amines. These solids, however, are very sensitive to the presence of water and ammonia (formation of copper nitrides... 

The amount of coke deposited on molybdena/alumina at the time it affords reasonable dehydrogenation selectivity is somewhat variable and depends on the surface area of the alumina support. Carbon contents of selective catalysts have been generally to be in the range of 5 to 20 wt %. 

Chromium sulfide is the active component for the dehydrogenation alumina which possesses desulfurization sites, confers a poor selectivity to the Cr/Al203 catalyst. We can note the very high activity of the Cr/C catalyst. The selectivity to dihydrothiophene (DHT) is always higher at a 50% conversion than at high conversion (80-100%). Results obtained at low conversion [9] confirm this tendency, the selectivity to DHT reaching 15-20% at a 10-20% conversion, in accordance with the consecutive scheme (Eqn.l) proposed for the dehydrogenation. 

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