Carbon deposit analysis in catalyst deactivation, regeneration, and rejuvenation

ETC Vogt, D Fu, BM Weckhuysen - … Chemie International Edition, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrocarbon conversion catalysts suffer from deactivation by deposition or formation of
carbon deposits. Carbon deposit formation is thermodynamically favored above 350° C …

Spatial and temporal exploration of heterogeneous catalysts with synchrotron radiation

F Meirer, BM Weckhuysen - Nature Reviews Materials, 2018 - nature.com
Solid catalysts are the workhorses that convert feedstock molecules into fuels, chemicals
and materials. Solid catalysts are highly complex, porous, multi-elemental and often …

N2O Catalytic Decomposition and NH3-SCR Coupling Reactions over Fe-SSZ-13 Catalyst: Mechanisms and Interactions Unraveling via Experiments and DFT …

J Cheng, D Zheng, G Yu, R Xu, C Dai, N Liu… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Simultaneous catalytic elimination of NO and N2O from exhausts is an ideal solution for
nitric or adipic acid plants. Herein, Fe-based zeolite catalysts were applied for the NH3–NO …

High-throughput activity screening and sorting of single catalyst particles with a droplet microreactor using dielectrophoresis

AE Nieuwelink, JC Vollenbroek, RM Tiggelaar… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
Solid catalysts are complex, multi-component materials with large interparticle
heterogeneities that hamper statistically relevant in-depth catalyst characterization. Here we …

Correlated X-ray ptychography and fluorescence nano-tomography on the fragmentation behavior of an individual catalyst particle during the early stages of olefin …

KW Bossers, R Valadian, S Zanoni… - Journal of the …, 2020 - ACS Publications
A combination of X-ray ptychography and X-ray fluorescence tomography (XRF) has been
used to study the fragmentation behavior of an individual Ziegler–Natta catalyst particle,∼ …

Some novel porous materials for selective catalytic oxidations

SL Suib, J Přech, J Čejka, Y Kuwahara, K Mori… - Materials Today, 2020 - Elsevier
Porous materials are outstanding catalysts in various reactions using confinement and
shape selectivity effects. Unsurprisingly, extensive research has been conducted on …

Sparse ab initio x-ray transmission spectrotomography for nanoscopic compositional analysis of functional materials

Z Gao, M Odstrcil, S Böcklein, D Palagin, M Holler… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
The performance of functional materials is either driven or limited by nanoscopic
heterogeneities distributed throughout the material's volume. To better our understanding of …

Nickel Poisoning of a Cracking Catalyst Unravelled by Single‐Particle X‐ray Fluorescence‐Diffraction‐Absorption Tomography

M Gambino, M Veselý, M Filez, R Oord… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Ni contamination from crude oil in the fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) process is one of the
primary sources of catalyst deactivation, thereby promoting dehydrogenation–hydrogenation …

Heterogeneity in the fragmentation of Ziegler catalyst particles during ethylene polymerization quantified by X-ray nanotomography

KW Bossers, R Valadian, J Garrevoet, S van Malderen… - JACS Au, 2021 - ACS Publications
Ziegler-type catalysts are the grand old workhorse of the polyolefin industry, yet their
hierarchically complex nature complicates polymerization activity–catalyst structure …

Developing an adaptive catalyst for an FCC reactor using a CFD RSM, CFD DPM, and CFD DDPM–EM approach

C Koyunoğlu, F Gündüz, H Karaca, T Çınar… - Fuel, 2023 - Elsevier
Cyclone separators, which have an important role in the recovery of catalysts, constituted
one of the aims of the study. In the work to be done, the pressure drop occurring during the …