Electronic state and distribution of heavy metals and their passivator in aluminum oxide and cracking catalyst

Abstract

The authors studies of the electronic state and distribution of nickel, iron, vanadium, and antimony in aluminum oxide and in RSG-6ts cracking catalyst, treated under various conditions, were performed in an ESCALAB-5 x-ray photoelectron spectrometer, using Mg K/sub ..cap alpha.. and AlK/sub ..cap alpha.. radiation. In recording the spectra and working up the spectral data, a DS-4025 data processing system based on a PDP-11 computer was used. The sensitivity of the XPS method restricted the investigate to samples with a metal content of 10,000 ppm or more. In the investigation, therefore, they used samples of the original zeolitic microbead catalyst RSG-6ts and a sample of catalyst poisoned with vanadium, iron, or nickel to a bulk content of 10,000 ppm.