Document Type : Regular Article
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Catalyst Research Group, Petrochemical Research and Technology Company, National Petrochemical Company, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The impregnation of the alumina support with the PdCl2 solution was investigated in batch and semi-batch operation modes using a recycle packed-bed reactor. The UV-visible analysis was used to evaluate the kinetics of the adsorption of Pd on the alumina support. The adsorption data related to transient palladium showed that the adsorption of Pd was very rapid and completed within few minutes. Bi-metallic Pd-Ag/Al2O3 catalysts were synthesized by the sequential impregnation method. CO-chemisorption, CO-TPD and FE-SEM tests were used to characterize the synthesized bi-metallic samples. The catalytic performance of the samples was evaluated for the tail-end acetylene selective hydrogenation process in a fixed-bed reactor. Moreover, the deactivation of the catalysts was evaluated mathematically by the integral method of analysis, considering reaction kinetics as power laws in terms of nth orders in H2 and C2H2 partial pressures. It was observed that by the batch-wise addition of the Pd precursor solution, a sample, with the lowest amount of Pd dimmers that had the highest ethylene selectivity and lowest hydrogenation reaction rate, was obtained.
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