Reactivity and stability investigation of supported molybdenum oxide catalysts for the hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of m-cresol》.pdf

Journal of Catalysis 331 (2015) 86–97 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Journal of Catalysis journal homepage: www.else /locate/jcat Reactivity and stability investigation of supported molybdenum oxide catalysts for the hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of m-cresol Manish Shetty 1, Karthick Murugappan 1, Teerawit Prasomsri, William H. Green, Yuriy Román-Leshkov ⇑ Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: The vapor-phase hydrodeoxygenation (HDO) of m-cresol is investigated at 593 K and H2 pressures 61 bar Received 19 May 2015 for supported catalysts comprised of 10 wt% MoO dispersed over SiO , cAl O , TiO , ZrO , and CeO . 3 2 2 3 2 2 2 Revised 25 July 2015 Reactivity data show that all catalysts selectively cleave CAO bonds without saturating the aromatic ring, Accepted 31 July 2015 thus effectively transforming m-cresol into toluene at moderate to high conversions. MoO3/ZrO2 and MoO3/TiO2 feature the highest initial site time yields (23.4 and 13.9 h1, respectively) and lowest This article is dedicated to Prof. Jean-Pierre first-order deactivation rate constants (0.013 and 0.006 h1, respectively)