Study on mesoporous catalysts for oxidation of volatile organic compounds

Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) emitted from many industrial processes, are harmful to human health and the atmsphere. Several technologies are currently used to eliminate VOCs from the environment. Among them, catalytic oxidation has been recognized as one of the most efficient and promising ways to treatment VOCs. So high performance oxidants play an dominant role in the catalytic oxidation process. In this work, we discussed many researchers’ works about preparation and effect of their catalysts, kinds of mesoporous catalysts for eliminating VOCs were reviewed, the active components of the catalysts are noble and non-noble metal oxides, which loaded in the mesochannels of mesoporous materials including silica, titania and aluminia.

Conversion of Waste Plastics to Liquid Fuels by Micro-Mesoporous HZSM-5 Catalysts

Three micro-mesoporous HZSM-5 catalysts were synthesized using three different mesoporous templates and studied for the conversion of a model municipal waste plastic mixture to produce liquid fuels of high value. For the comparison, the conversion of an actual waste plastic mixture and HDPE was also studied. The experiments were performed in a batch stirred reactor at three reaction temperatures (350, 375, and 400 °C) and at fixed cold H2 pressure (20 bar), reaction time (60 min), and plastic to catalyst ratio (20:1 by wt.). The micro-mesoporous catalysts produced better activity and selectivity than their parent HZSM-5 catalyst. The catalyst, prepared by combining two different templates, was found to be the most favorable catalyst offering 67.1% liquid yield at 400 °C with actual waste plastic. The best performing catalyst has shown the prospects for commercial applications.

Highly dispersed Pt species anchored onto NH2-Ce-MOFs and their derived mesoporous catalysts for CO oxidation

Highly dispersed ultrafine platinum particles anchored onto mesoporous CeO2 were successfully prepared by coordinating Pt ions with –NH2 in NH2-Ce-MOFs.