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Enhancing Propane Aromatization Performance of Zn/H-ZSM-5 Zeolite Catalyst with Pt Promotion: Effect of the Third Metal Additive-Sn

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In this study, an attempt was made to modify Zn/HZSM-5 aromatization catalyst by successively impregnating Sn and Pt. Among prepared catalysts, the Zn6.0Sn0.2Pt0.1/HZSM-5 catalyst exhibited excellent catalytic performances in both activation and aromatics selectivity. Multi-techniques including XRD, nitrogen physisorption, NH3-IR, TEM, HAADF-STEM/EDX and operando dual beam Fourier transform infrared (DB-FT-IR) spectroscopy were applied to study Zn6.0Sn0.2Pt0.1/HZSM-5 catalyst to gain insight into its active sites and collaboration of them. It is concluded that, in the Zn6.0Sn0.2Pt0.1/HZSM-5 catalyst, the aromatization of propane was catalyzed by the cooperation between Brønsted acid sites (bridging hydroxyls)–Lewis acid sites [zinc species and metallic alloy (SnPt nano clusters)]. Sn had crucial mediation effect which remarkably improved metal dispersion and finely tuned metal–metal interactions. Furthermore, the 3000-h fixed-bed propane aromatization stability test indicated that the Zn6.0Sn0.2Pt0.1/HZSM-5 catalyst also had very prominent anti-coking deactivation ability.

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This work is financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 21603023).

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Zhou, W., Liu, J., Wang, J. et al. Enhancing Propane Aromatization Performance of Zn/H-ZSM-5 Zeolite Catalyst with Pt Promotion: Effect of the Third Metal Additive-Sn. Catal Lett 149, 2064–2077 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10562-019-02832-5

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