Zeolites hydrocarbons

The conformation of ethylene glycol occluded in high silica sodalite has been determined [25]. In the category of zeolite-hydrocarbon complexes, we have seen completion of studies at relatively low loading levels of benzene in zeolites L [26,27] and Na-Y [28]. Benzene has also been studied in... 

Auerbach et al. (101) used a variant of the TST model of diffusion to characterize the motion of benzene in NaY zeolite. The computational efficiency of this method, as already discussed for the diffusion of Xe in NaY zeolite (72), means that long-time-scale motions such as intercage jumps can be investigated. Auerbach et al. used a zeolite-hydrocarbon potential energy surface that they recently developed themselves. A Si/Al ratio of 3.0 was assumed and the potential parameters were fitted to reproduce crystallographic and thermodynamic data for the benzene-NaY zeolite system. The functional form of the potential was similar to all others, including a Lennard-Jones function to describe the short-range interactions and a Coulombic repulsion term calculated by Ewald summation. 

Compositions of retained products from treated H-USY and (Na)H-USY are in Table 2. The lecoveied material also contained, except for treatment at the lowest temperature (393K), some black insoluble residue, presumably polymeric and similar to that previously reported from other zeolite/hydrocarbon systems (13,14). 

C2.7.6.7 SHAPE-SELECTIVE HYDROCARBON REACTIONS CATALYSED BY ZEOLITES... 

Haag W O, Lago R M and Weisz P B 1982 Transport and reactivity of hydrocarbon molecules in a shape-selective zeolite Faraday Disouss. Chem. Soo. 72 317-30... 

To explain how solid acids such as Nafion-H or HZSM-5 can show remarkable catalytic activity in hydrocarbon transformations, the nature of activation at the acidie sites of such solid acids must be eon-sidered. Nafion-H contains acidic -SO3H groups in clustered pockets. In the acidic zeolite H-ZSM-5 the active Bronsted and Tewis acid sites are in close proximity (—2.5 A). 

M. L. Poutsma, "Mechanistic Gonsiderations of Hydrocarbon Transformations Gatalyzed by Zeohtes," in J. A. Rabo, ed.. Zeolite Chemisty and Catalysis, AGS Monograph 171, American Ghemical Society, Washington, D.G., 1976. 

Strong acids are able to donate protons to a reactant and to take them back. Into this class fall the common acids, aluminum hahdes, and boron trifluoride. Also acid in nature are silica, alumina, alumi-nosihcates, metal sulfates and phosphates, and sulfonated ion exchange resins. They can transfer protons to hydrocarbons acting as weak bases. Zeolites are dehydrated aluminosilicates with small pores of narrow size distribution, to which is due their highly selective action since only molecules small enough to enter the pores can reacl . 

Cracking, a rupturing of carbon-carbon bonds—for example, of gas oils to gasohne—is favored by sihca-alumina, zeolites, and acid types generally. Zeohtes have pores with small and narrow size distribution. They crack only molecules small enough to enter the pores. To restrain the undesirable formation of carbon and C3-C4 hydrocarbons, zeolite activity is reduced by dilution to 10 to 15 percent in silica-alumina. 

The second method used to reduce exliaust emissions incorporates postcombustion devices in the form of soot and/or ceramic catalytic converters. Some catalysts currently employ zeolite-based hydrocarbon-trapping materials acting as molecular sieves that can adsorb hydrocarbons at low temperatures and release them at high temperatures, when the catalyst operates with higher efficiency. Advances have been made in soot reduction through adoption of soot filters that chemically convert CO and unburned hydrocarbons into harmless CO, and water vapor, while trapping carbon particles in their ceramic honeycomb walls. Both soot filters and diesel catalysts remove more than 80 percent of carbon particulates from the exliatist, and reduce by more than 90 percent emissions of CO and hydrocarbons. 

Methanol conversion to hydrocarbons over various zeolites (370X, 1 atm, 1 LHSV)... 

Active matrix contributes significantly to the overall performance of the FCC catalyst. The zeolite pores are not suitable for cracking of large hydrocarbon molecules generally having an end point > d00 [-(482°C) they are too small to allow diffusion of the large molecules to the cracking sites. An effective matrix must have a porous structure to allow diffusion of hydrocarbons into and out of the catalyst. 

Molecular Sieve is a term applied to zeolite. Zeolite exhibits shape selectivity and hydrocarbon absorptions. 

The effective cross-section of an /z-alkane molecule is smaller than 5 A the effective cross-section of branched, cyclic, or aromatic hydrocarbon molecules is larger than 5 A. Therefore only n-alkanes are adsorbed by a 5-A zeolite all other types of hydrocarbons are excluded. The adsorbed n-alkanes can be recovered by different methods and are subsequently available in a pure form, for further processing. 

FIGURE 9.2 This high-resolution electron micrograph shows the unique pore structure of the ZSM-5 zeolite catalyst. Molecules such as methanol and hydrocarbons can he catalytically converted within the pores to valuable fuels and lubricant products. Courtesy, Mobil Research and Development Corporation. 

---