NMR imaging of the distribution of the liquid phase in a catalyst pellet during alpha-methylstyrene evaporation accompanied by its vapor-phase hydrogenation.
This communication reports the first application of NMR imaging to study the progress of a multiphase heterogeneous catalytic reaction in situ. Various stationary regimes of alpha-methylstyrene (AMS) hydrogenation on a single Pt/gamma-Al2O3 catalyst pellet have been investigated. The two-dimensional maps of the liquid-phase distribution within the pellet have been obtained in the course of the catalytic reaction, with the pellet temperature rising up to 185 degrees C. The large liquid-phase concentration gradients have been shown to exist under conditions of liquid AMS evaporation accompanied by its vapor-phase hydrogenation. It has been demonstrated that despite a substantial broadening of the NMR lines of liquids permeating porous solids the quantification of the relative amounts of AMS and the major reaction product cumene with spatial resolution across the pellet is feasible.
Koptyug
Igor V
IV
International Tomography Center, 3A Institutskaya St., Novosibirsk 630090, Russia. koptyug@tomo.nsc.ru
Kulikov
Alexander V
AV
Lysova
Anna A
AA
Kirillov
Valery A
VA
Parmon
Valentin N
VN
Sagdeev
Renad Z
RZ