On the remarkable resistance to coke formation of nanometer-sized and hierarchical MFI zeolites during ethanol to hydrocarbons transformation

Louwanda Lakiss (1) , Francis Ngoye (2) , Christine Canaff (2) , Sebastien Laforge (2) , Yannick Pouilloux (2) , Zhengxin Qin (1) , Mehrad Tarighi (2) , Karine Thomas (1) , Valentin Valtchev (1) , Aurélie Vicente (1) , Ludovic Pinard (2) , Jean-Pierre Gilson (1) , Christian Fernandez (1)

1 LCS - Laboratoire catalyse et spectrochimie
2 IC2MP [Poitiers] - Institut de chimie des milieux et matériaux de Poitiers [UMR 7285]

The impact of the textural properties of H-ZSM-5 zeolites in the conversion of ethanol to hydrocarbons at 623 K and under 3.0 MPa pressure is investigated. We highlight that the lifetime of the catalysts is not correlated to the coking rate but to the number of pore mouths. The addition of macropores (fluoride leaching) or mesopores (alkaline leaching) to micron-sized zeolites is a simple approach to increase the number of pore mouths and reduce the diffusion path length of molecules in the micropores. However, the most efficient way is to reduce the zeolite crystal size to nanometers. The longest catalyst lifetime (>100 h) is obtained with a hierarchical nanometer-sized zeolite even though most of its acid sites are poisoned. The important impact of the nature of coke on the catalysts regeneration is also highlighted.

Mots clés: Hierarchical porosity; ZSM-5 catalysts; Ethanol to hydrocarbons; Deactivation; Regeneration

Domaines: Catalyse

Louwanda Lakiss, Francis Ngoye, Christine Canaff, Sebastien Laforge, Yannick Pouilloux, et al.. On the remarkable resistance to coke formation of nanometer-sized and hierarchical MFI zeolites during ethanol to hydrocarbons transformation . Journal of Catalysis, 2015, 328 pp.165-172. ⟨10.1016/j.jcat.2014.12.030⟩. ⟨hal-01341615⟩