O-W-Fre-9 Gas Phase Epoxidation of Propylene in the Presence of H2 and O2 over Small Gold Ensembles in Uncalcined TS-1

Wednesday, June 5, 2013: 1:50 PM
French (Galt House Hotel)
Wen-Sheng Lee1, M. Cem Akatay1, Eric A. Stach1,2, Fabio H. Ribeiro1 and W. Nicholas Delgass1, (1)Purdue University, USA, (2)Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA.
A novel catalyst consisting of nano gold particles supported on an uncalcined (with template in) titanium silicalite-1 (Au/UTS-1) has been found to have a very long (~10-20 h) and unique activation period for gas phase propylene epoxidation in the presence of H2 and O2.

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