Implications of Co-Feeding Water on the Growth Mechanisms of Retained Species on a SAPO-18 Catalyst during the Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction

The dynamics of retained and deactivating species in a SAPO-18 catalyst during the methanol-to-olefins reaction have been followed using a combination of ex-situ and in-situ techniques in differential and integral reactors.The retained species were analyzed using extraction, in-situ FTIR and in-situ...

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Autores: Valecillos Díaz, José del Rosario, Hita del Olmo, Idoia, Sastre, Enrique, Aguayo Urquijo, Andrés Tomás, Castaño Sánchez, Pedro
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
Repositorio:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigación
OAI Identifier:oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/55019
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10810/55019
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:coke deactivation
high-resolution mass spectrometry
in-situ spectroscopy
methanol-to-hydrocarbons (MTH) reaction
SAPO-18 (AEI) zeolite
carbon bond formation
particle spectroscopy
hydrocarbons reaction
reaction temperature
molecular-sieves
conversion
deactivation
zeolite
transformation
selectivity
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Sumario:The dynamics of retained and deactivating species in a SAPO-18 catalyst during the methanol-to-olefins reaction have been followed using a combination of ex-situ and in-situ techniques in differential and integral reactors.The retained species were analyzed using extraction, in-situ FTIR and in-situ UV-vis spectroscopies combined with online product analysis (gas chromatography and mass spectrometry). The composition of the extracted soluble species was determined using gas chromatography-mass spectrometry and that of the insoluble species using high-resolution mass spectrometry. We observe a decrease in the formation and degradation rates of retained species when co-feeding water, whereas the extent of the decreases is the same across the entire spectrum of retained molecules. This indicates that co-feeding water unselectively quenches the formation of active and deactivating species. At the same time, the catalyst has an extended lifetime when co-feeding water due to the diffusion of species (particularly olefins) out of the SAPO-18 crystals, and subsequent growth of heavy polycyclic aromatic structures that imply less deactivation. These conclusions can be extrapolated to other MTO catalysts with relatively similar pore topology such as SAPO-34 or SSZ-13 structures.