Design of optimum catalytic system and reactor configuration for the selective catalytic conversion of ethane to ethylene
Abstract
Ethylene production via catalytic oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane is a developing technology with great economic and technological interest. The purpose of the present thesis is the optimal catalyst and reactor system design for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethylene. On the one hand, an in-depth study of the mechanism of oxidative dehydrogenation catalysts based on nickel oxide was conducted and the active catalytic center determined. On the other hand, the effect of operating and design parameters of the catalytic reactor to yield to ethylene was investigated. A series of nickel-niobium and nickel-aluminum mixed oxides were developed and it was found that part of the dopant cations is incorporated in nickel oxide crystal. This interaction causes a reduction of excess electrophilic monovalent oxygen species present in non-stoichiometric host NiO. Selectivity towards ethylene was found to be inversely related to the surface concentration of electrophilic species O-, wh ...
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