Investigating the speciation of hydrocarbonaceous deposits formed during oxidative dehydrogenation of propane

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Propene plays an important role in various petro-chemical applications, such as the production of polypropylene and acrylic acid, but is dependent on the fluctuating prices of oil and natural gas. It is normally produced from stream cracking of naphtha, however there is a trend to crack lighter alkanes such as ethane and so less propene is produced. Another, smaller scale propene production route is needed, two reactions are envisaged, the energy intensive propane dehydrogenation (PD) and exothermic oxidative dehydrogenation of propane (ODH). Unfortunately, a selective and durable catalyst is yet to be found.This project aims to investigate adsorbed hydrogenous species found on a MoO3/Al2O3 catalyst, precursors for propane ODH and catalyst deactivation during (PD). Measurements on the MAPS spectrometer will aid our assignment of recently recorded spectra recorded on TOSCA (Sept '17).

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.90681467
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/90681467
Provenance
Creator Dr Emma Gibson; Mr James Craswell; Professor Michael Bowker; Dr Arunabhiram Chutia; Professor Stewart Parker; Professor Richard Catlow; Mr Pip Hellier; Dr Santhosh Matam
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2021
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 2018-07-09T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2018-07-13T06:33:36Z