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Dan Xu1,2, Shuyuan Wang1,2, Baoshan Wu1,3,4
1State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Taiyuan 030001 , People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Conversion of straight-chain paraffins into aromatics is particularly attractive but extremely challenging in the oil refining industry. Constructing the Pt-supported catalysts with high aromatic selectivity is vital. Here, we report a strategy to use Fe-modified KL zeolites to improve the Pt atom utilization efficiency and anchor them inside KL zeolite channels via atomic-layer deposition technique. A combination of highly dispersed single-atom Pt and electron-rich Pt clusters is fabricated on the KL zeolite through the creation of proper nucleation sites. The resulted catalyst (PtFe-1/KL) exhibits excellent performance for the n-heptane aromatization (90.1% aromatic selectivity) with an apparent activation energy of 131 kJ/mol and much enhanced stability at a relatively lower temperature (420 °C). Experimental analysis and density functional theory calculation demonstrate that the single-atom Pt might play a key role in the initial dehydrogenation of n-heptane to 1-heptene, and the superior stable Pt clusters encapsulated inside Fe-decorated KL zeolite channels accelerate the 1-heptene dehydrocyclization to aromatics. The synergetic interaction between single-atom Pt and Pt clusters enables the PtFe-1/KL catalyst to be one of the most effective n-heptane aromatization catalysts reported to date.
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