The Influence of water and catalyst leach process toward propane oxidation on MoVTeNb catalyst

Abstract

The effect of the water stream to the propane oxidation on diluted MoVTeNb catalyst has been investigated. The present work has elucidated that careful operation of high throughput instrumentation can be used in various beneficial ways to speed up the discovery process of improved catalysts in other forms than enabling efficient trial-and-error testing of compositional variations of a given catalyst system. The result shows that the addition of massive amounts of water to the feed should have a negative influence on the kinetics, as water will compete with all other polar molecules in the system for adsorption sites. This work also investigated the effect of catalyst leach process toward propane oxidation. From the result, it can be described that catalyst leach process tends to reduce the phase of the catalyst that responds to the total oxidation of propane. This work also proposed the reaction network and gave the comparison between the propane oxidation reaction kinetic using leached and un-leached catalyst. The result showed that the activation energy of the acrylic acid formation on the leached catalyst was slightly higher than that of on un-leached catalyst. On the other hand, the activation energy of the carbon dioxide formation on the leached catalyst was much higher than that of on un-leached catalyst. It can be described that the leaching process to the catalyst can reduce the phase of the catalyst responsible for the total oxidation of propane.