Catalyst for synthesizing aromatic hydrocarbons and preparation method therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11014076-B2
Application number	US-201716343870-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 22, 2017
Priority date	Oct 24, 2016
Publication date	May 25, 2021
Grant date	May 25, 2021

Abstract

A catalyst for synthesizing aromatic hydrocarbons, a preparation method thereof and a method for synthesizing aromatic hydrocarbons by using the catalyst. The catalyst comprises acidic molecular sieve particles and zinc-aluminum composite oxide particles. The catalyst has relatively high selectivity to aromatic hydrocarbons, particularly BTX, stable performance, and a long single-pass life.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A catalyst, wherein the catalyst comprises a uniform mixture of acidic molecular sieve particles and coprecipitated zinc-aluminum composite oxide particles, and the zinc-aluminum composite oxide particles further comprise impregnated palladium oxide and zirconium oxide.

2. The catalyst according to claim 1 , wherein a mass ratio of the acidic molecular sieve particles to the zinc-aluminum composite oxide particles is in a range from 1:19 to 19:1.

3. The catalyst according to claim 1 , wherein the acidic molecular sieve particles and the zinc-aluminum composite oxide particles each independently have a diameter of less than or equal to 5 mm.

4. The catalyst according to claim 1 , wherein the acidic molecular sieve is an acidic molecular sieve selected from the group consisting of 10-membered ring molecular sieves and molecular sieves having greater than 10-membered rings.

5. The catalyst according to claim 1 , wherein the acidic molecular sieve comprises an acidic molecular sieve with at least one structure selected from a group consisting of MFI, BEA, FAU, EMT, MOR, FER, and MWW.

6. The catalyst according to claim 2 , wherein the acidic molecular sieve particles and the zinc-aluminum composite oxide particles each independently have a diameter of less than or equal to 5 mm.

7. The catalyst according to claim 2 , wherein the acidic molecular sieve is an acidic molecular sieve selected from the group consisting of 10-membered ring molecular sieves and molecular sieves having greater than 10-membered rings.

8. The catalyst according to claim 3 , wherein the acidic molecular sieve is an acidic molecular sieve selected from the group consisting of 10-membered ring molecular sieves and molecular sieves having greater than 10-membered rings.

9. The catalyst according to claim 1 , wherein the acidic molecular sieve particles and the zinc-aluminum composite oxide particles each independently have a diameter of less than or equal to 1 mm and greater than or equal to 0.1 mm.

10. The catalyst according to claim 1 , wherein, the acidic molecular sieve is an acidic ZSM-5 molecular sieve.

11. The catalyst according to claim 1 , wherein, the acidic molecular sieve is an acidic ZSM-5 molecular sieve exchanged with NH4+ ions followed by air calcination resulting in the H+ acidic form of ZSM-5.

12. The catalyst according to claim 1 , wherein the catalyst has been prepared by a method comprising
1) Formulating a salt containing metal ions from a zinc element and an aluminum element into an aqueous solution,
2) Coprecipitating the metal ions in the salt containing the zinc element and the aluminum element by an aqueous solution of a precipitating agent to obtain a precipitate,
3) Aging, washing, drying and calcining the precipitate to obtain the coprecipitated zinc-aluminum composite oxide particles, and impregnating the coprecipitated zinc-aluminum composite oxide particles with a mixed solution containing salt compounds of palladium and zirconium followed by drying and calcining to obtain the zinc-aluminum composite oxide particles comprising palladium oxide and zirconium oxide,
4) Uniformly mixing the zinc-aluminum composite oxide particles comprising palladium oxide and zirconium oxide with the acidic molecular sieve particles;

wherein the precipitating agent comprises at least one selected from a group consisting of sodium carbonate, potassium carbonate, ammonium carbonate, sodium hydrogencarbonate, potassium hydrogencarbonate, ammonium hydrogencarbonate, aqueous ammonia, sodium hydroxide, and potassium hydroxide.

Assignees

• Dalian Inst Chem & Physics Cas

Inventors

• Ni Youming
• Zhu Wenliang
• Liu Zhongmin
• Chen Zhiyang
• Liu Yong
• Liu Hongchao
• Ma Xiangang
• Liu Shiping

Classifications

• B01J35/40

  characterised by dimensions, e.g. grain size (in a colloidal state B01J35/23; crystallite size B01J35/77) · CPC title

• C07C2529/40

  of the pentasil type, e.g. types ZSM-5, ZSM-8 or ZSM-11 · CPC title

• B01J29/7838

  EMT-type, e.g. EMC-2, ECR-30, CSZ-1, ZSM-3 or ZSM-20 · CPC title

• B01J38/14

  with control of oxygen content in oxidation gas · CPC title

• B01J2523/31

  Aluminium · CPC title