Long-term deactivation of supported Pt catalysts in the dehydrogenation of methylcyclohexane to toluene

Faisal Alhumaidan, David Cresswell, Arthur Garforth

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    Abstract

    The kinetics of methylcyclohexane (MCH) dehydrogenation over supported Pt catalysts was successfully described by a non-Langmuirian/noncompetitive Horiuti-Polanyi model (Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., in press). The daily reversible and irreversible deactivation, associated with activity tests, was satisfactorily included in the dehydrogenation model. The objective of this work is to incorporate the long-term deactivation of Pt catalysts, associated with life or deactivation tests, in the kinetic model. This has been successfully achieved by assuming that the long-term deactivation is the sum of two exponential decay processes, one rapid and completed in a few days, while the other is slow with a half-life of weeks to months. © 2010 American Chemical Society.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)9764-9770
    Number of pages6
    JournalIndustrial and Engineering Chemistry Research
    Volume49
    Issue number20
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 20 Oct 2010

    Keywords

    • Exponential decays
    • Kinetic models
    • Methylcyclohexane
    • Polanyi model
    • Pt catalysts
    • Supported Pt
    • Catalyst activity
    • Catalyst supports
    • Dehydrogenation
    • Platinum
    • Toluene
    • Catalyst deactivation

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