Zeolite minilith: A unique structured catalyst for the methanol to gasoline process
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2018

Structured microchannel H-ZSM-5 catalysts containing up to 80 wt% zeolite (balance bentonite) were fabricated by unit operations of paste preparation, extrusion, drying and firing. The structured catalysts, called miniliths due to their micrometre-range dimensions, were composed of parallel cylindrical channels with a wall thickness of 200–300 μm, density of 2.1 channels/mm2 and a channel diameter of 300 μm. These miniliths were characterised by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive X-ray analysis, N2 physisorption and thermogravimetric analysis. For the first time, these miniliths were tested for the conversion of methanol to gasoline at 370 °C, 3 bar and a weight hourly space velocity (WHSV) of up to 1170 h−1. A gasoline product yield of 53% was obtained at a methanol conversion of 74% over the ZSM-5 miniliths. The pressure drop at the same conversion over a packed-bed reactor of equal ZSM-5 content was 2 orders of magnitude higher than that of the minilith. Reducing the amount of ZSM-5 catalyst in the packed bed, to obtain similar inlet pressure as the ZSM-5 minilith gave the same product yield at a much higher conversion (81%) demonstrating the potential of these structured microchannel reactors.

ZSM-5

Structured reactor

Methanol

Gasoline

Methanol-to-olefin

Micromonolith

Minilith

Methanol-to-gasoline

Författare

Oluwatoyin Omojola

University of Bath

The University of Warwick

Nikolay Cherkasov

The University of Warwick

Evgeny Rebrov

The University of Warwick

Dmitry Lukyanov

University of Bath

Semali Perera

University of Bath

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

0255-2701 (ISSN)

Vol. 131 137-143

Ämneskategorier

Kemiteknik

DOI

10.1016/j.cep.2018.07.016

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Dataset for "Zeolite Minilith: A Unique Structured Catalyst for the Methanol to Gasoline Process" [dataset]

URI: https://researchdata.bath.ac.uk/524/ DOI: 10.15125/BATH-00524

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