Kinetic study of the selective hydrogenation of styrene over a Pd egg-shell composite catalyst

This is a study on the kinetics of the liquid-phase hydrogenation of styrene to ethylbenzene over a catalyst of palladium supported on an inorganic–organic composite. This support has a better mechanical resistance than other commercial supports, e.g. alumina, and yields catalysts with egg-shell str...

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Autores: Betti, Carolina Paola, Badano, Juan Manuel, Lederhos, Cecilia Rosa, Maccarrone, María Juliana, Carrara, Nicolás Ricardo, Coloma Pascual, Fernando, Quiroga, Monica Esther, Vera, Carlos Roman
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/36830
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/36830
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Selective Hydrogenation
Styrene
Kinetics
Composite
Palladium
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2.4
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/2
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Sumario:This is a study on the kinetics of the liquid-phase hydrogenation of styrene to ethylbenzene over a catalyst of palladium supported on an inorganic–organic composite. This support has a better mechanical resistance than other commercial supports, e.g. alumina, and yields catalysts with egg-shell structure and a very thin active Pd layer. Catalytic tests were carried out in a batch reactor by varying temperature, total pressure and styrene initial concentration between 353–393 K, 10–30 bar, and 0.26–0.60 mol L−1. Kinetic models were developed on the assumptions of dissociative hydrogen chemisorption and non-negligible adsorption of hydrogen and styrene. Final chemical reaction expressions useful for reactor design were obtained. The models that best fitted the experimental data were those ones that considered the surface reaction as the limiting step. In this sense, a two-step Horiuti–Polanyi working mechanism with half hydrogenation intermediates gave the best fit of the experimental data. The heats of adsorption of styrene and ethylbenzene were also estimated.