The Hydrothermal Synthesis of Zeolites: History and Development from the Earliest Days to the Present Time

The role of metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) in the field of catalysis is discussed, and special focus is placed on their assets and limits in light of current challenges in catalysis and green chemistry. Their structural and dynamic features are presented in terms of catalytic functions along with how MOFs can be designed to bridge the gap between zeolites and enzymes. The contributions of MOFs to the field of catalysis are comprehensively reviewed and a list of catalytic candidates is given. The subject is presented from a multidisciplinary point of view covering solid-state chemistry, materials science, and catalysis.

Metal-organic frameworks: opportunities for catalysis.

A review on pyrolysis of plastic wastes

Recent advances in the science and technology of ultra low sulfur diesel (ULSD) production

Fast pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass produces a renewable liquid fuel called pyrolysis oil that is the cheapest liquid fuel produced from biomass today Here we show that pyrolysis oils can be converted into industrial commodity chemical feedstocks using an integrated catalytic approach that combines hydroprocessing with zeolite catalysis The hydroprocessing increases the intrinsic hydrogen content of the pyrolysis oil, producing polyols and alcohols The zeolite catalyst then converts these hydrogenated products into light olefins and aromatic hydrocarbons in a yield as much as three times higher than that produced with the pure pyrolysis oil The yield of aromatic hydrocarbons and light olefins from the biomass conversion over zeolite is proportional to the intrinsic amount of hydrogen added to the biomass feedstock during hydroprocessing The total product yield can be adjusted depending on market values of the chemical feedstocks and the relative prices of the hydrogen and biomass

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/330/6008/1222.full.pdf

Renewable Chemical Commodity Feedstocks from Integrated Catalytic Processing of Pyrolysis Oils

The implications of the fundamentals of shape selectivity for the development of catalysts for the petroleum and petrochemical industries

This paper provides an overview of current industrial alkylation processes for the production of ethylbenzene and cumene. In recent years, zeolite catalysts have begun to displace the conventional aluminum chloride and solid phosphoric acid (SPA) Friedel–Crafts catalysts used in both ethylbenzene and cumene processes. This transformation has been particularly rapid in the case of cumene technology, where more than 50% of the worldwide cumene capacity has converted to zeolite catalysts in the last 5 years.

Alkylation of aromatics with ethylene and propylene: recent developments in commercial processes

History of ZSM-5 fluid catalytic cracking additive development at Mobil

Zeolites, or more broadly molecular sieves, can be found in a majority of the major catalytic processes in today’s petroleum refinery. This paper provides an overview of the use of zeolite catalysts in today’s petroleum refineries, and emphasizes some of the newer refining applications including gasoline sulfur removal and dewaxing via isomerization. Zeolite catalysts are also finding new applications at the refinery–petrochemical complex interface. These applications will also be highlighted.

http://depa.fquim.unam.mx/amyd/archivero/articulo6_7196.pdf

Applications of zeolites in petroleum refining

Waxy hydrocarbon oils, e.g., of petroleum origin, are catalytically dewaxed to produce high viscosity index lubricating oil stocks utilizing as catalyst acidic zeolite ZSM-57.

Thomas F. Degnan

Papers

The implications of the fundamentals of shape selectivity for the development of catalysts for the petroleum and petrochemical industries

Alkylation of aromatics with ethylene and propylene: recent developments in commercial processes

History of ZSM-5 fluid catalytic cracking additive development at Mobil

Applications of zeolites in petroleum refining

Production of high viscosity index lubricating oil stock