Abstract
This paper presents an experimental and modeling study of methane dehydroaromatization (MDA) chemistry using a bifunctional 6 wt % Mo/HZSM-5 catalyst in an isothermal laboratory-scale packed-bed configuration. The reported measurements include methane conversion and product yields and selectivities as a function of temperature and flow rates (space velocity). The modeling is particularly concerned with developing and validating a microscopically reversible 54-step detailed reaction mechanism. The reaction mechanism is validated via direct comparison with the measured packed-bed performance. Although the operating conditions for the measurements are relatively limited, the detailed reaction mechanism is expected to have much wider predictive capability.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 9895-9906 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue number | 37 |
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| State | Published - Sep 21 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
This work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-12-1-0495), the Office of Naval Research (N00014-08-1-0539), and CoorsTek, Inc. We also acknowledge the frequent and insightful discussions with Prof. Christian Kjølseth (University of Oslo), Dr. Jim Steppan (Ceramatec), and Dr. Steffen Tischer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology).