The Importance of Thermal Treatment on Wet-Kneaded Silica–Magnesia Catalyst and Lebedev Ethanol-to-Butadiene Process
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Chung, Sang-Ho
Galilea, Adrian

Shoinkhorova, Tuiana

Mukhambetov, Ildar
Abou-Hamad, Edy

Telalovic, Selevedin
Gascon, Jorge

Ruiz-Martinez, Javier

KAUST Department
Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering (BESE) DivisionChemical Engineering Program
Chemical Science
Imaging and Characterization Core Lab
KAUST Catalysis Center (KCC)
KAUST Catalysis Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Advanced Catalytic Materials (ACM), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia.
KAUST Catalysis Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Catalysis, Nanomaterials, and Spectroscopy (CNS), Thuwal 23955, Saudi Arabia.
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Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division
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2021-02-26Submitted Date
2020-12-31Permanent link to this record
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The Lebedev process, in which ethanol is catalytically converted into 1,3-butadiene, is an alternative process for the production of this commodity chemical. Silica–magnesia (SiO2–MgO) is a benchmark catalyst for the Lebedev process. Among the different preparation methods, the SiO2–MgO catalysts prepared by wet-kneading typically perform best owing to the surface magnesium silicates formed during wet-kneading. Although the thermal treatment is of pivotal importance as a last step in the catalyst preparation, the effect of the calcination temperature of the wet-kneaded SiO2–MgO on the Lebedev process has not been clarified yet. Here, we prepared and characterized in detail a series of wet-kneaded SiO2–MgO catalysts using varying calcination temperatures. We find that the thermal treatment largely influences the type of magnesium silicates, which have different catalytic properties. Our results suggest that the structurally ill-defined amorphous magnesium silicates and lizardite are responsible for the production of ethylene. Further, we argue that forsterite, which has been conventionally considered detrimental for the formation of ethylene, favors the formation of butadiene, especially when combined with stevensite.Citation
Chung, S.-H., Ramirez, A., Shoinkhorova, T., Mukhambetov, I., Abou-Hamad, E., Telalovic, S., … Ruiz-Martínez, J. (2021). The Importance of Thermal Treatment on Wet-Kneaded Silica–Magnesia Catalyst and Lebedev Ethanol-to-Butadiene Process. Nanomaterials, 11(3), 579. doi:10.3390/nano11030579Sponsors
We acknowledge Christian G. Canlas (KAUST Core Labs) for the technical support for solid-state NMR.Funding was provided by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
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NanomaterialsAdditional Links
https://www.mdpi.com/2079-4991/11/3/579ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.3390/nano11030579
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