Exploring the Catalytic Pathway of Butane Isomerisation

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The petrochemical industry accounts for a large proportion of global chemical industry, as such even subtle improvements in product yield can result in significant economic and environmental benefits. This has led to significant investigation into microporous solid acid catalysts, such as zeolites and aluminophosphates, which are used for many key petrochemical processes. Isobutane is the only natural gas liquid manufactured from another natural gas liquid; n-butane, thus butane isomerisation is a key reaction in petrochemical processing. We intend to observe interactions between n-butane (reactant), isobutane (product) and a C8 species (intermediate) and a Zeolite catalyst (Mordenite) to focus on acid-substrate interactions. This will be complemented by observing a quenched reaction mixture (prepared offline) to contrast with the prepared mixtures to look at the catalytic pathway.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1920057-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/109983240
Provenance
Creator Mr Josh Le Brocq; Professor Robert Raja; Mr Jack Parsons; Dr Matthew Potter; Dr Hamish Cavaye; Dr Svemir Rudic
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2023
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Chemistry; Natural Sciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2020-02-12T09:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2020-02-17T10:46:13Z