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Li C, Zhang H, Liu W, Sheng L, Cheng MJ, Xu B, Luo G, Lu Q. Efficient conversion of propane in a microchannel reactor at ambient conditions. Nat Commun 2024; 15:884. [PMID: 38287034 PMCID: PMC10825187 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45179-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 01/31/2024] Open
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The oxidative dehydrogenation of propane, primarily sourced from shale gas, holds promise in meeting the surging global demand for propylene. However, this process necessitates high operating temperatures, which amplifies safety concerns in its application due to the use of mixed propane and oxygen. Moreover, these elevated temperatures may heighten the risk of overoxidation, leading to carbon dioxide formation. Here we introduce a microchannel reaction system designed for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane within an aqueous environment, enabling highly selective and active propylene production at room temperature and ambient pressure with mitigated safety risks. A propylene selectivity of over 92% and production rate of 19.57 mmol mCu-2 h-1 are simultaneously achieved. This exceptional performance stems from the in situ creation of a highly active, oxygen-containing Cu catalytic surface for propane activation, and the enhanced propane transfer via an enlarged gas-liquid interfacial area and a reduced diffusion path by establishing a gas-liquid Taylor flow using a custom-made T-junction microdevice. This microchannel reaction system offers an appealing approach to accelerate gas-liquid-solid reactions limited by the solubility of gaseous reactant.
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- Chunsong Li
- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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Zhang D, Wang S, Zhang C, He L, Sun W. Chemically exfoliated boron nanosheets for efficient oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. NANOSCALE 2024; 16:1312-1319. [PMID: 38131277 DOI: 10.1039/d3nr05212e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2023]
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Oxidative dehydrogenation of propane (ODHP) is a promising technique for producing propene due to its low operative temperature and coke-resistant feature. Recently, boron-based catalysts have been widely investigated for ODHP owing to their brilliant performance. Herein, we report that boron in the form of nanosheets can be prepared feasibly by exfoliating layered MgB2 with hydrochloric acid, and can efficiently and stably catalyze ODHP. At 530 °C, the catalyst exhibits propene and ethene selectivities as high as 63.5% and 18.4%, respectively, at a 40% propane conversion. The olefin productivity reaches 2.48 golefin gcat-1 h-1, superior to the commercial h-BN and other reported boron-based catalysts. Even after testing for 100 h at 530 °C, the catalyst still maintains excellent stability. This work expands the effective boron-based catalyst family for ODHP and demonstrates the great potential of the new type of 2D material-boron nanosheet for energy and catalytic applications.
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- Dake Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and Advanced Semiconductor Materials, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People's Republic of China.
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and Advanced Semiconductor Materials, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People's Republic of China.
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and Advanced Semiconductor Materials, and School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People's Republic of China.
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Cendejas MC, Paredes Mellone OA, Kurumbail U, Zhang Z, Jansen JH, Ibrahim F, Dong S, Vinson J, Alexandrova AN, Sokaras D, Bare SR, Hermans I. Tracking Active Phase Behavior on Boron Nitride during the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane Using Operando X-ray Raman Spectroscopy. J Am Chem Soc 2023; 145:25686-25694. [PMID: 37931025 DOI: 10.1021/jacs.3c08679] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a highly selective catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane (ODHP) to propylene. Using a variety of ex situ characterization techniques, the activity of the catalyst has been attributed to the formation of an amorphous boron oxyhydroxide surface layer. The ODHP reaction mechanism proceeds via a combination of surface mediated and gas phase propagated radical reactions with the relative importance of both depending on the surface-to-void-volume ratio. Here we demonstrate the unique capability of operando X-ray Raman spectroscopy (XRS) to investigate the oxyfunctionalization of the catalyst under reaction conditions (1 mm outer diameter reactor, 500 to 550 °C, P = 30 kPa C3H8, 15 kPa O2, 56 kPa He). We probe the effect of a water cofeed on the surface of the activated catalyst and find that water removes boron oxyhydroxide from the surface, resulting in a lower reaction rate when the surface reaction dominates and an enhanced reaction rate when the gas phase contribution dominates. Computational description of the surface transformations at an atomic-level combined with high precision XRS spectra simulations with the OCEAN code rationalize the experimental observations. This work establishes XRS as a powerful technique for the investigation of light element-containing catalysts under working conditions.
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- Melissa C Cendejas
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin─Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin─Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin─Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin─Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin─Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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- Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California 90095, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin─Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University of Wisconsin─Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
- Wisconsin Energy Institute, University of Wisconsin─Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, United States
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Zhang D, Wang S, Lu X, Zhang C, Feng K, He L, Zhang H, Sun W, Yang D. Self-evolved BO x anchored on Mg 2B 2O 5 crystallites for high-performance oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. iScience 2023; 26:108135. [PMID: 37876808 PMCID: PMC10590969 DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2023.108135] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/27/2023] [Revised: 08/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/02/2023] [Indexed: 10/26/2023] Open
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Oxidative dehydrogenation of propane (ODHP) is a promising process for producing propene. Recently, some boron-based catalysts have exhibited excellent olefin selectivity in ODHP. However, their complex synthetic routes and poor stability under high-temperature reaction conditions have hindered their practical application. Herein, we report a self-evolution method rather than conventional assembly approaches to acquire structures with excellent stability under a high propane conversion, from a single precursor-MgB2. The catalyst feasibly prepared and optimized exhibited a striking performance: 60% propane conversion with a 43.2% olefin yield at 535°C. The BOx corona pinned by the strong interaction with the borate enabled zero loss of the high conversion (around 40%) and olefins selectivity (above 80%) for over 100 h at 520°C. This all-in-one strategy of deriving all the necessary components from just one raw chemical provides a new way to synthesize effective and economic catalysts for potential industrial implementation.
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- Dake Zhang
- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and Advanced Semiconductor Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and Advanced Semiconductor Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People’s Republic of China
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- Key Laboratory of Precise Synthesis of Functional Molecules of Zhejiang Province, Instrumentation and Service Center for Molecular Sciences, Westlake University, 18 Shilongshan Road, Hangzhou 310024, Zhejiang Province, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China
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- Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials (FUNSOM), Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Carbon-Based Functional Materials and Devices, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, Jiangsu, China
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- Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory of Power Semiconductor Materials and Devices, ZJU-Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 311200, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and Advanced Semiconductor Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People’s Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Silicon Materials and Advanced Semiconductor Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310027, People’s Republic of China
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Tian H, Li W, He L, Zhong Y, Xu S, Xiao H, Xu B. Rationalizing kinetic behaviors of isolated boron sites catalyzed oxidative dehydrogenation of propane. Nat Commun 2023; 14:6520. [PMID: 37845252 PMCID: PMC10579386 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-42403-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/15/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 10/18/2023] Open
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Boron-based catalysts exhibit high alkene selectivity in oxidative dehydrogenation of propane (ODHP) but the mechanistic understanding remains incomplete. In this work, we show that the hydroxylation of framework boron species via steaming not only enhances the ODHP rate on both B-MFI and B-BEA, but also impacts the kinetics of the reaction. The altered activity, propane reaction order and the activation energy could be attributed to the hydrolysis of framework [B(OSi≡)3] unit to [B(OSi≡)3-x(OH···O(H)Si≡)x] (x = 1, 2, "···" represents hydrogen bonding). DFT calculations confirm that hydroxylated framework boron sites could stabilize radical species, e.g., hydroperoxyl radical, further facilitating the gas-phase radical mechanism. Variations in the contributions from gas-phase radical mechanisms in ODHP lead to the linear correlation between activation enthalpy and entropy on borosilicate zeolites. Insights gained in this work offer a general mechanistic framework to rationalize the kinetic behavior of the ODHP on boron-based catalysts.
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- Hao Tian
- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Beijing, 100871, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Methanol to Olefins, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Beijing, 100871, China
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- National Engineering Laboratory for Methanol to Olefins, Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, iChEM (Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials), Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, 116023, China
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- Department of Chemistry and Key Laboratory of Organic Optoelectronics & Molecular Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 100084, China
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- College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
- Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Beijing, 100871, China.
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Wang G, Chen S, Duan Q, Wei F, Lin S, Xie Z. Surface Chemistry and Catalytic Reactivity of Borocarbonitride in Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 2023; 62:e202307470. [PMID: 37523147 DOI: 10.1002/anie.202307470] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/27/2023] [Revised: 07/30/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 08/01/2023]
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Borocarbonitride (BCN) materials are newly developed oxidative dehydrogenation catalysts that can efficiently convert alkanes to alkenes. However, BCN materials tend to form bulky B2 O3 due to over-oxidation at the high reaction temperature, resulting in significant deactivation. Here, we report a series of super stable BCN nanosheets for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane (ODHP) reaction. The catalytic performance of the BCN nanosheets can be easily regulated by changing the guanine dosage. The control experiment and structural characterization indicate that the introduction of a suitable amount of carbon could prevent the formation of excessive B2 O3 from BCN materials and maintain the 2D skeleton at a high temperature of 520 °C. The best-performing catalyst BCN exhibits 81.9 % selectivity towards olefins with a stable propane conversion of 35.8 %, and the propene productivity reaches 16.2 mmol h-1 g-1 , which is much better than hexagonal BN (h-BN) catalysts. Density functional theory calculation results show that the presence of dispersed rather than aggregated carbon atoms can significantly affect the electronic microenvironment of h-BN, thereby boosting the catalytic activity of BCN.
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- Guangming Wang
- Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon-Based Functional Materials, Fujian Province University), State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, 350016, Fuzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon-Based Functional Materials, Fujian Province University), State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, 350016, Fuzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon-Based Functional Materials, Fujian Province University), State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, 350016, Fuzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon-Based Functional Materials, Fujian Province University), State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, 350016, Fuzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon-Based Functional Materials, Fujian Province University), State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, 350016, Fuzhou, China
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- Key Laboratory of Advanced Carbon-Based Functional Materials, Fujian Province University), State Key Laboratory of Photocatalysis on Energy and Environment, College of Chemistry, Fuzhou University, 2 Xueyuan Road, 350016, Fuzhou, China
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Wang T, Zhu M. Effect of Boron Species on Carbon Surface on Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane. Chin J Chem Eng 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2023.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/31/2023]
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Xu Y, Hu W, Li Y, Su H, Liang W, Liu B, Gong J, Liu Z, Liu X. Manipulating the Cobalt Species States to Break the Conversion–Selectivity Trade-Off Relationship for Stable Ethane Dehydrogenation over Ligand-Free-Synthesized Co@MFI Catalysts. ACS Catal 2023. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c05860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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- Yuebing Xu
- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 214122Wuxi, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 214122Wuxi, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 214122Wuxi, China
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- Sinopec Catalyst Co., Ltd., 100029Beijing, China
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- Sinopec Catalyst Co., Ltd., 100029Beijing, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 214122Wuxi, China
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- Sinopec Catalyst Co., Ltd., 100029Beijing, China
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- Sinopec Catalyst Co., Ltd., 100029Beijing, China
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, School of Chemical and Material Engineering, Jiangnan University, 214122Wuxi, China
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Jiang X, Lis BM, Purdy SC, Paladugu S, Fung V, Quan W, Bao Z, Yang W, He Y, Sumpter BG, Page K, Wachs IE, Wu Z. CO 2-Assisted Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane over VO x/In 2O 3 Catalysts: Interplay between Redox Property and Acid–Base Interactions. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c02099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Xiao Jiang
- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 301 Ferst Dr., Atlanta, Georgia 30332, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Neutron Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830, United States
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 18015, United States
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Chernyak SA, Corda M, Dath JP, Ordomsky VV, Khodakov AY. Light olefin synthesis from a diversity of renewable and fossil feedstocks: state-of the-art and outlook. Chem Soc Rev 2022; 51:7994-8044. [PMID: 36043509 DOI: 10.1039/d1cs01036k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Light olefins are important feedstocks and platform molecules for the chemical industry. Their synthesis has been a research priority in both academia and industry. There are many different approaches to the synthesis of these compounds, which differ by the choice of raw materials, catalysts and reaction conditions. The goals of this review are to highlight the most recent trends in light olefin synthesis and to perform a comparative analysis of different synthetic routes using several quantitative characteristics: selectivity, productivity, severity of operating conditions, stability, technological maturity and sustainability. Traditionally, on an industrial scale, the cracking of oil fractions has been used to produce light olefins. Methanol-to-olefins, alkane direct or oxidative dehydrogenation technologies have great potential in the short term and have already reached scientific and technological maturities. Major progress should be made in the field of methanol-mediated CO and CO2 direct hydrogenation to light olefins. The electrocatalytic reduction of CO2 to light olefins is a very attractive process in the long run due to the low reaction temperature and possible use of sustainable electricity. The application of modern concepts such as electricity-driven process intensification, looping, CO2 management and nanoscale catalyst design should lead in the near future to more environmentally friendly, energy efficient and selective large-scale technologies for light olefin synthesis.
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- Sergei A Chernyak
- University of Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, University of Artois, UMR 8181 - UCCS - Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide, Lille, France.
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- University of Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, University of Artois, UMR 8181 - UCCS - Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide, Lille, France.
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- Direction Recherche & Développement, TotalEnergies SE, TotalEnergies One Tech Belgium, Zone Industrielle Feluy C, B-7181 Seneffe, Belgium
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- University of Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, University of Artois, UMR 8181 - UCCS - Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide, Lille, France.
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- University of Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, University of Artois, UMR 8181 - UCCS - Unité de Catalyse et Chimie du Solide, Lille, France.
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Tian H, Xu B. Oxidative co-dehydrogenation of ethane and propane over h-BN as an effective means for C–H bond activation and mechanistic investigations. CHINESE JOURNAL OF CATALYSIS 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/s1872-2067(21)64042-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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Gao B, Qiu B, Zheng M, Liu Z, Lu WD, Wang Q, Xu J, Deng F, Lu AH. Dynamic Self-Dispersion of Aggregated Boron Clusters into Stable Oligomeric Boron Species on MFI Zeolite Nanosheets under Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c01622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- Bin Gao
- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116024, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116024, China
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116024, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116024, China
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- National Center for Magnetic Resonance in Wuhan, State Key Laboratory of Magnetic Resonance and Atomic and Molecular Physics, Wuhan Institute of Physics and Mathematics, Innovation Academy for Precision Measurement Science and Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei 430071, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Fine Chemicals, Liaoning Key Laboratory for Catalytic Conversion of Carbon Resources, School of Chemical Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, Liaoning 116024, China
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Jiang X, Zhang X, Purdy SC, He Y, Huang Z, You R, Wei Z, Meyer HM, Yang J, Pan Y, Wu P, Zhu W, Chi M, Page K, Huang W, Wu Z. Multiple Promotional Effects of Vanadium Oxide on Boron Nitride for Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane. JACS AU 2022; 2:1096-1104. [PMID: 35647601 PMCID: PMC9131366 DOI: 10.1021/jacsau.1c00542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2021] [Revised: 03/03/2022] [Accepted: 03/24/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Featuring high olefin selectivity, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has emerged recently as an attractive catalyst for oxidative dehydrogenation of propane (ODHP). Herein, we report that dispersion of vanadium oxide onto BN facilitates the oxyfunctionalization of BN to generate more BO x active sites to catalyze ODHP via the Eley-Rideal mechanism and concurrently produce nitric oxide to initiate additional gas-phase radical chemistry and to introduce redox VO x sites to catalyze ODHP via the Mars-van Krevelen mechanism, all of which promote the catalytic performance of BN for ODHP. As a result, loading 0.5 wt % V onto BN has doubled the yield of light alkene (C2-C3) at 540-580 °C, and adding an appropriate concentration of NO in the reactants further enhances the catalytic performance. These results provide a potential strategy for developing efficient h-BN-based catalysts through coupling gas-phase and surface reactions for the ODHP process.
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- Xiao Jiang
- Chemical
Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical
Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Hefei
National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory
of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher
Education Institutes, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion
and Department of Chemical Physics, University
of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- Neutron
Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Chemical
Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Center
for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Hefei
National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory
of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher
Education Institutes, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion
and Department of Chemical Physics, University
of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- Hefei
National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory
of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher
Education Institutes, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion
and Department of Chemical Physics, University
of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
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- Chemical
Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- National
Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University
of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P.R. China
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- National
Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, University
of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P.R. China
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- School of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiang
Su University, Zhenjiang 212013, P. R. China
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- School of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Jiang
Su University, Zhenjiang 212013, P. R. China
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- Center
for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Neutron
Scattering Division, Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Department
of Materials Science and Engineering, University
of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Hefei
National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, Key Laboratory
of Surface and Interface Chemistry and Energy Catalysis of Anhui Higher
Education Institutes, CAS Key Laboratory of Materials for Energy Conversion
and Department of Chemical Physics, University
of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, P. R. China
| | - Zili Wu
- Chemical
Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
- Center
for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge
National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Cheng X, Xiao B, Chen Y, Wang Y, Zheng L, Lu Y, Li H, Chen G. Ligand Charge Donation–Acquisition Balance: A Unique Strategy to Boost Single Pt Atom Catalyst Mass Activity toward the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction. ACS Catal 2022. [DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.2c00891] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Xing Cheng
- Beijing Key Laboratory for Green Catalysis and Separation, Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, P. R. China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Green Catalysis and Separation, Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, P. R. China
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- Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, P. R. China
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- Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, P. R. China
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- Beijing Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, P. R. China
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- Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, P. R. China
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- Faculty of Materials and Manufacturing, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, P. R. China
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- Beijing Key Laboratory for Green Catalysis and Separation, Faculty of Environment and Life, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, P. R. China
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Assessment of catalysts for oxidative coupling of methane and ethylene. Catal Today 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2022.05.035] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Liu Q, Wang J, Liu Z, Zhao R, Xu A, Jia M. Water-Tolerant Boron-Substituted MCM-41 for Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane. ACS OMEGA 2022; 7:3083-3092. [PMID: 35097303 PMCID: PMC8793070 DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.1c06504] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2021] [Accepted: 12/31/2021] [Indexed: 05/20/2023]
Abstract
Boron-based catalysts for oxidative dehydrogenation of propane (ODHP) have displayed excellent olefin selectivity. However, the drawback of deboronation leading to catalyst deactivation limited their scalable applications. Hereby, a series of mesoporous B-MCM-41 (BM-x, B/Si = 0.015-0.147) catalysts for ODHP were prepared by a simple hydrothermal synthesis method. It was found that propane conversion was increased and the initial reaction temperature was reduced with an increase of boron content, and the optimal values appeared on BM-2.0 (B/Si = 0.062), while olefins' (ethylene and propylene) selectivity was maintained at ca. 70-80%. Most importantly, BM-1.0 (B/Si = 0.048) exhibited favorable activity, stability, and water tolerance after washing treatment or long-time operation (e.g., propane conversion of ca. 15% and overall olefin selectivity of ca. 80% at 550 °C) because its high structural stability prevented boron leaches. These features were identified by X-ray diffraction (XRD), N2 physisorption, inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and solid-state magic-angle-spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (MAS NMR) spectroscopy studies. The tri-coordinated B-OH species incorporated into the mesoporous silica framework are considered to be the active sites for ODHP.
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Yang GQ, He YJ, Song YH, Wang J, Liu ZT, Liu ZW. Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane with Carbon Dioxide Catalyzed by Zn xZr 1–xO 2–x Solid Solutions. Ind Eng Chem Res 2021. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.iecr.1c03476] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Guo-Qing Yang
- Key Laboratory of Syngas Conversion of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Syngas Conversion of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Syngas Conversion of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Syngas Conversion of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Syngas Conversion of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China
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- Key Laboratory of Syngas Conversion of Shaanxi Province, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an 710119, China
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