WO3/Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized From APT

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Published on Wednesday, 14 July 2021 05:20

The mechanical properties of carbon nanotube composites are mainly studied by experiment, theoretical analysis and numerical method. The common methods for the mechanical properties of carbon nanotubes include amplitude calculation, cantilever/simply supported beam model, and direct methods. The mechanical parameters of carbon nanotubes are derived by classical mechanics.Solid acid catalysts play a significant part in chemical and petroleum industries in hydrocarbon conversion reactions required in octane enhancement processes, such as cracking, isomerization and alkylation, which can form highly branched isoparaffins. Such reactions need strong or moderate acid catalysts.

 

image of carbon nanotubes

Tungsten trioxide/carbon nanotubes (WO3/CNTs) has been produced where ammonium paratungstate (APT) has been applied as precursor material. The experimental procedures are in following two steps: Open multi-walled CNTs with inner and outer average diameters of 40 and 80 nm, and lengths up to about 200 μm. They had a non-microporous specific surface area of 25 m2/g obtained by BET measurement using N2 at LN2 temperature. Deposition of tungsten was performed by wet impregnation of the bare CNTs with an aqueous solution (20 mL) of ammonium metatungstate pentahydrate, (APT), at pH close to 5. The CNTs were added to the precursor salt aqueous solution kept under vigorous stirring at 80 °C for 20 min before the slow evaporation of the solvent at room temperature. The resulting material was further dried overnight at 120 °C. The WO3 content was taken at 4, 17 and 30 wt.% relative to the total weight of catalyst. The dried materials were finally calcinated at 350 °C for 2 h. Comparison was made with a WO3 (25 wt.%)/ZrO2 reference catalyst prepared following the same procedure and using commercially available monoclinic ZrO2 supplied by Johnson Matthey. 
 
SEM image of carbon nanotubes

The as-synthesized product was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) and X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS).

To sum up, the WO3/Carbon nanotubes exhibited monofunctional acidic skeletal isomerization properties with very high (100%) skeletal isomerization selectivities even at high conversion levels, confirmed by the fact that they are only active for olefin reactions but exhibit no activity toward saturated reactants. These materials were tested for C6 olefin skeletal isomerization in different activation (pre-reduction) conditions and compared to a reference tungstated zirconia, WO3/ZrO2, catalyst. They led to very high skeletal isomerization selectivities at 200 8C at high conversion level without any observable deactivation.

 

 

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