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Published on: February 22, 2020
Impact of Zeolite Structure on Entropic-Enthalpic Contributions to Alkane Monomolecular Cracking: An IR Operando
Shashikant A Kadam1, Haoguang Li1, Richard F Wormsbecher1
1Normandie Univ, ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, Laboratoire Catalyse et Spectrochimie, 14000, Caen, France.
Abstract:
The monomolecular cracking rates of propane and n-butane over MFI, CHA, FER and TON zeolites were determined simultaneously with the coverage of active sites at reaction condition using IR operando spectroscopy. This allowed direct determination of adsorption thermodynamics and intrinsic rate parameters. The results show that the zeolite confinement mediates enthalpy-entropy trade-offs only at the adsorbed state, leaving the true activation energy insensitive to the zeolite or alkane structure while the activation entropy was found to increase with the confinement. Hence, relative cracking rates of alkanes within zeolite pores are mostly governed by activation entropy.
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