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One-step hydroprocessing of fatty acids into renewable aromatic hydrocarbons over Ni/HZSM-5: Insights into the major reaction pathways
Xing, Shiyou,Lv, Pengmei,Wang, Jiayan,Fu, Junying,Fan, Pei,Yang, Lingmei,Yang, Gaixiu,Yuan, Zhenhong,Chen, Yong
, p. 2961 - 2973 (2017/02/05)
For high caloricity and stability in bio-aviation fuels, a certain content of aromatic hydrocarbons (AHCs, 8-25 wt%) is crucial. Fatty acids, obtained from waste or inedible oils, are a renewable and economic feedstock for AHC production. Considerable amounts of AHCs, up to 64.61 wt%, were produced through the one-step hydroprocessing of fatty acids over Ni/HZSM-5 catalysts. Hydrogenation, hydrocracking, and aromatization constituted the principal AHC formation processes. At a lower temperature, fatty acids were first hydrosaturated and then hydrodeoxygenated at metal sites to form long-chain hydrocarbons. Alternatively, the unsaturated fatty acids could be directly deoxygenated at acid sites without first being saturated. The long-chain hydrocarbons were cracked into gases such as ethane, propane, and C6-C8 olefins over the catalysts' Br?nsted acid sites; these underwent Diels-Alder reactions on the catalysts' Lewis acid sites to form AHCs. C6-C8 olefins were determined as critical intermediates for AHC formation. As the Ni content in the catalyst increased, the Br?nsted-acid site density was reduced due to coverage by the metal nanoparticles. Good performance was achieved with a loading of 10 wt% Ni, where the Ni nanoparticles exhibited a polyhedral morphology which exposed more active sites for aromatization.
Roles of Surface Protanation on the Photodynamic, Catalytic, and Other Properties of Polyoxometalates Probed by the Photochemical Functionalization of Alkalies. Implications for Irradiated Semiconductor Metal Oxides
Renneke, Roman F.,Kadkhodayan, Miryam,Pasquali, Marzia,Hill, Craig L.
, p. 8357 - 8367 (2007/10/02)
This paper further addresses the photodynamic and redox properties of polyoxometalates and the legitimacy of these compounds as discrete molecular representations for semiconductor metal oxides. The effect of protonation on redox, photochemical, catalytic, and other basic properties of a representative polyoxometalate, decatungstate (W10O324-), in aprotic media has been examined in detail. Protonation results in minimal perturbation of the electronic absorption spectral features of W10O324- including the HOMO-LUMO gap (band gap in semiconductor formalism) but a shift of ～ 1 V in the ground-state redox potentials (two quasi-reversible one-electron waves at -1.2 and -1.8 V become one quasi-reversible two-electron wave at -0.1 V vs Ag/AgNO3). The quantum yields (Φ) for the photooxidation of several alkanes by W10O324- (homogeneous reactions in CH3CN solution, 25 °C, Ar atmosphere, 322-nm light) all increase substantially upon protonation, with the increases dependent on alkane (ΦH+/ΦnoH+ ≈ 6.9 for cyclooctane (least increase) to ～ 25 for most alkanes). The alkane oxidation products in these processes also change upon protonation from those largely derived from freely diffusing alkyl radical intermediates to those largely derived from carbocation intermediates. The EPR spectra (X band) obtained from photooxidation of alkanes by W10O324- in the absence and presence of acid in frozen CH3CN glasses at 10 K and at 25 °C along with evidence from UV-visible spectra and oxidative titration data establish that the one-electron (EPR-active, S = 1/2) and two-electron (EPR-silent, S = 0) reduced forms of decatungstate, W10O325- and W10O326-, respectively, are produced in a 3:7 mol ratio in the absence of acid while the two-electron reduced form is produced exclusively in the presence of acid. EPR spectra as a function of irradiation time and as a function of acid concentration further establish that the two forms of the one-electron-reduced decatungstate present under acidic conditions are W10O325- and HW10O324-. The quantum yields, organic product distributions, polyoxometalate product distributions, UV-vis spectra, and ground-state redox potentials have all been assessed as a function of the number of equivalents of acid added per equivalent of W10O324-. All change monotonically with added acid, are well correlated, and attain a limiting behavior when ～ 2.5 equiv of acid has been added. The addition of W10O324- to acidified CH3CN solutions of branched alkenes suppresses acid-catalyzed alkene isomerization, providing another independent confirmation of W10O324- protonation. Protonation significantly decreases the rate of reduced decatungstate reoxidation by dioxygen in line with the effect of protonation on the ground-state redox potentials. The rate laws of the protonated and unprotonated forms are very similar: Both are variable order in W10O324-, apparently first order in substrate, and first order in light intensity. A rate law consistent with all the data that covers both protonation phenomena and the important coupled thermal process of electron-transfer oxidation of intermediate radicals has been formulated. The ratios of the rate constant for total deactivation of the excited state to the specific rate constant for alkane photooxidation by the excited state, assessed by double reciprocal plots, are 0.86 and 3.4 for the acidified and nonacidified reactions, respectively. The ratios of the rate constant for radiationless decay to that specifically for alkane photooxidation are 0.095 and 1.63 for the acidified and nonacidified systems, respectively.
