Methylation of benzene is an alternative low-cost route to produce xylenes
but selectivity to xylene remains low over conventional zeolitic catalysts. In this work
a combined dry-gel-conversion and steam-assistedcrystallization method is used to synthesize hierarchically porous zeolite ZSM-5 with varied Si/Al malar ratios. X-ray diffraction (XRD)
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2
physisorption
NH
3
-temperature programmed desorption (TPD)
scanning electronic microscopic (SEM) measurement and Fourier transforminfrared (FT-IR) are employed to characterize the structure and acidity of both hierarchically porous zeolites and their conventional counterparts. The method is found to be applicable to ZSM-5 with molar ratios of Si/Al from 20 to 180. The ZSM-5 zeolites are used as catalysts for benzene methylation at 460℃ to investigate the effect of additional porosity and Si/Al ratios. At low Si/Al ratios
the benzene conversions over conventional and hierarchical ZSM-5 are close
and selectivity to toluene is high over hierarchical ZSM-5. It is found that hierarchical porositymarkedly enhances the utility of zeolite and the selectivity towards xylenes via improved mass transport at higher Si/Al ratios. Un
der an optimized hierarchical ZSM-5 catalyst
xylene selectivity reaches 34.9% at a Si/Al ratio of 180.
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