Direct Conversion of Ethanol to Isobutene on ZnxZryOz mixed oxides: Identification of Active Sites

Smith, Colin

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Willis (Galt House Hotel)

Colin Smith¹, Junming Sun¹, Changjun Liu¹ and Yong Wang^1,2, (1)Washington State University, USA, (2)Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA.

We investigated a mixed oxide catalyst (Zn_xZr_yO_z) with balanced acid/base sites capable of converting ethanol directly to isobutene in one continuous process. In this work, IR-Pyridine was utilized as a means to correlate the strength of acidic Brønsted sites with catalyst selectivity towards isobutene and stability against coke formation.

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P-W-Wil-11 Direct Conversion of Ethanol to Isobutene on ZnxZryOz mixed oxides: Identification of Active Sites

P-W-Wil-11 Direct Conversion of Ethanol to Isobutene on Zn_xZr_yO_z mixed oxides: Identification of Active Sites