Catalytic dehydrochlorination of 1,2-dichloroethane over pyridine deposited pitch-based active carbon fiber

Article abstract of DOI:10.1246/cl.1996.967

Pitch-based active carbon fiber (pitch-ACF) modified by pyridine chemical vapor deposition (CVD) showed excellent catalytic activity for dehydrochlorination of 1, 2-dichloroethane (1, 2-DCE) into vinyl chloride (VC). Compared with polyacrylonitrile-based ACF (PAN-ACF), the present ACF of 2% weight increase by CVD showed long life over 300 h at 360 °C (conversion: ca. 20%; VC selectivity: 99.7%; contact time: 5.8 x 10^-3).