OE12 First Principles Analysis of Active Site-Structure Activity Relationship of Methanol Dehydration over Tungstated Zirconia

Monday, June 6, 2011: 2:50 PM
Ambassador Ballroom 2 (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Hui Xu, Chemical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA and Matthew Neurock, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Tungstated zirconia are highly acidic materials that effectively catalyze a wide range of different reactions including alcohol dehydration, aromatic acylation, and isomerization of alkanes and xylenes. Herein we examine the mechanism for methanol dehydration, explore the influence of catalyst structure and surface WOx domain size and stablish structure-acidity-activity relationships.

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