Abstract
Development of high-performance solid acid catalysts for chemicals and materials production from bioresourced feedstock has become an important research topic in heterogeneous catalysis for renewable energy and green chemistry. We provide herein a comprehensive study on the catalytic performance of various K+-exchanged zeolites (KxNa1-xZ_y, x = 0.90–0.98) with similar molar K/Al ratios for acrylic acid (AA) production by gas-phase dehydration of lactic acid (LA) and discuss the effects of zeolite type (Z = ZSM-22, ZSM-35, MCM-22, ZSM-11, ZSM-5, ZSM-5/ZSM-11, and β) and SiO2/Al2O3 ratio (y). ZSM-5 and β are found more efficient than the other zeolites for this LA-to-AA reaction. Variation of y in the zeolite (β and ZSM-5) is shown to significantly affect the catalytic performance: not only higher AA selectivity and yield but also better catalytic stability is achieved by lowering y. A K0.97Na0.03ZSM-5_27 is then identified as the best-performing catalyst, offering very high AA selectivity (80–81 mol%) and ...
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