In-situ synthesis and characterization of V-MCM-41 for oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butane》.pdfVIP

Microporous and Mesoporous Materials xxx (2015) 1e7 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Microporous and Mesoporous Materials journal homepage: /l ocate/micromeso In-situ synthesis and characterization of V-MCM-41 for oxidative dehydrogenation of n-butane * Xiaosheng Wang, Guanglin Zhou, Zhiwei Chen, Weili Jiang, Hongjun Zhou Institute of New Energy, State Key Laboratory of Heavy Oil Processing, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: A series of MCM-41 catalysts with different vanadium content were prepared via prehydrolysis hydro- Received 27 March 2014 thermal method with ammonia metavanadate as precursors. The prepared samples were characterized Received in revised form by Powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), N2 adsorptionedesorption, X-ray photoelectron spectra (XPS), H2 19 June 2015 temperature-programmed reduction (TPR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission Accepted 23 June 2015 Available online xxx electron microscopy (TEM). Results showed that V-MCM-41 could still maintain hexagonal mesoporous structure and large specific surface area when the vanadium content was low, whereas the mesoporous structure collapsed in the high V-containing samples. Two vanadium species (V5þ/VSiO and V5þ/V O )