The benzene alkylation process for the production of ethylbenzene has undergone significant improvements during recent decades.Various environmentally benign zeolite-catalyzed ethylbenzene processes,including ZSM-5-ze...The benzene alkylation process for the production of ethylbenzene has undergone significant improvements during recent decades.Various environmentally benign zeolite-catalyzed ethylbenzene processes,including ZSM-5-zeolite-based vapor-phase ethylbenzene processes and Y-,β-,and MCM-22-zeolite-based liquid-phase processes,have been developed and commercialized.Pure ethylene,ethanol,and dilute ethylene have been used as ethylation agents.Here,the development and industrial application of alkylation catalysts and benzene ethylation techniques are summarized,and some other promising innovations are discussed.Recent advances in benzene alkylation over hierarchical zeolites with improved access to active sites and molecular transport are also covered.Zeolites with short diffusion lengths are promising candidates as better alkylation catalysts.The key point is how to obtain such materials easily and economically.The structure-activity relationships of commercial zeolites in these processes are discussed.Liquid-phase processes catalyzed by β and MCM-22 are more profitable than vapor-phase processes catalyzed by ZSM-5.展开更多
Hierarchically porous single-crystalline nanosized zeolites as heterogeneous catalysts show great poten- tial in fine chemistry because they offer more rich hierarchically porous channels for the mass transfer and mol...Hierarchically porous single-crystalline nanosized zeolites as heterogeneous catalysts show great poten- tial in fine chemistry because they offer more rich hierarchically porous channels for the mass transfer and molecular diffusion. However, the synthesis of hierarchically porous nanosized zeolites generally requires the assistance of templates acting as the mesoporogens, which limits its popularity. Herein, we report a one-pot and template-free synthesis of hierarchically porous single-crystalline nanosized zeolite beta only by introducing sodium carbonate in precursor solution. The resulted sample features the extraordinary properties, including the uniform nanocrystal （200-300 nm）, high pore volume （0.65 cm3g 1） and the hierarchical pore-size distribution （e.g., 2-8 and 90-150 nm）. After slicing pro- cessing, it is interestingly found that a large number of interconnected mesopores penetrate throughout whole material, which enables the hierarchically porous nanosized zeolite beta remarkably superior cat- alytic activity than the conventional zeolite beta in condensation of henzaldehyde with ethanol at room temperature. More importantly, this one-pot sodium carbonate-assisted synthetic strategy is highly ver- satile, which has also been successfully developed to synthesize hierarchically porous nanosized single- crystalline zeolites ZSM-5 and TS.展开更多
文摘The benzene alkylation process for the production of ethylbenzene has undergone significant improvements during recent decades.Various environmentally benign zeolite-catalyzed ethylbenzene processes,including ZSM-5-zeolite-based vapor-phase ethylbenzene processes and Y-,β-,and MCM-22-zeolite-based liquid-phase processes,have been developed and commercialized.Pure ethylene,ethanol,and dilute ethylene have been used as ethylation agents.Here,the development and industrial application of alkylation catalysts and benzene ethylation techniques are summarized,and some other promising innovations are discussed.Recent advances in benzene alkylation over hierarchical zeolites with improved access to active sites and molecular transport are also covered.Zeolites with short diffusion lengths are promising candidates as better alkylation catalysts.The key point is how to obtain such materials easily and economically.The structure-activity relationships of commercial zeolites in these processes are discussed.Liquid-phase processes catalyzed by β and MCM-22 are more profitable than vapor-phase processes catalyzed by ZSM-5.
基金sponsored by the National Key Basic Research Program of China(2013CB933200)China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists(51225202)+2 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(51502330)shanghai international cooperation project(16520710200)Science Foundation for Youth Scholar of State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructures(SKL201604)
文摘Hierarchically porous single-crystalline nanosized zeolites as heterogeneous catalysts show great poten- tial in fine chemistry because they offer more rich hierarchically porous channels for the mass transfer and molecular diffusion. However, the synthesis of hierarchically porous nanosized zeolites generally requires the assistance of templates acting as the mesoporogens, which limits its popularity. Herein, we report a one-pot and template-free synthesis of hierarchically porous single-crystalline nanosized zeolite beta only by introducing sodium carbonate in precursor solution. The resulted sample features the extraordinary properties, including the uniform nanocrystal （200-300 nm）, high pore volume （0.65 cm3g 1） and the hierarchical pore-size distribution （e.g., 2-8 and 90-150 nm）. After slicing pro- cessing, it is interestingly found that a large number of interconnected mesopores penetrate throughout whole material, which enables the hierarchically porous nanosized zeolite beta remarkably superior cat- alytic activity than the conventional zeolite beta in condensation of henzaldehyde with ethanol at room temperature. More importantly, this one-pot sodium carbonate-assisted synthetic strategy is highly ver- satile, which has also been successfully developed to synthesize hierarchically porous nanosized single- crystalline zeolites ZSM-5 and TS.
