Mesopore-Modified Zeolites: Preparation, Characterization, and Applications
Mesopore-Modified Zeolites: Preparation, Characterization, and Applications
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10.1002/chin.200621223
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2006-05
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Y. Tao;H. Kanoh;L. Abrams;K. Kaneko
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Y. Tao;H. Kanoh;L. Abrams;K. Kaneko
The demand for environmentally friendly and more efficient technology has enhanced interest in the use and development of porous solids. These materials typically have high surface areas, which, coupled with their unique surface chemistries, offer unique reaction and adsorption selectivities. Zeolites are porous crystalline solids whose pores are of molecular dimensions thereby providing size and shape selectivity for guest molecules. Zeolites are widely used in catalysis as well as in the separation and purification fields due to their uniform, small pore size, high internal surface area, flexible frameworks, and controlled chemistry. 1-12 The major drawback of zeolites is that the small size of the channels (less than∼ 0.8 nm) and cavities (typically< 1.5 nm) imposes diffusional limitations on reactions that can cause high back pressure on flow systems. 12-16 It has been repeatedly demonstrated that mass transfer limitations play an important role in industrial applications using zeolites. 17-19 To circumvent the diffusional limitation imposed by zeolitic structures, several potential solutions have been explored:• making zeolites with larger pores;• making smaller zeolite particles;• inserting larger pores into the zeolite particles. Some effort was devoted to the development of zeolite materials with larger pores (> 1.5 nm), 1, 2 but the increases in pore size were modest. Further, these new materials are not very effective in reactions with large-sized molecules or for petroleum cracking reactions. 2 The reduction of zeolite particle sizes has been employed as a means of reducing the intracrystalline diffusion path length. 20-33 However, as Camblor et al. reported, synthesizing zeolites with particle sizes below 100 nm caused a decrease in the micropore volume due to less perfect crystallization. 34, 35 Other desirable properties are also affected; for example, filtration of the smaller zeolite particles is difficult due to their colloidal properties. For small particle zeolites, hydrothermal stability is reduced and considerable loss of crystallinity occurs during the activation dealumination process. The reduction in stabilty can be countered by synthesizing zeolite Y with a higher Si/Al ratio, but the activity decreases. 36, 37Compared to the dimensions of the zeolite micropores (< 2 nm), mesopores (2-50 nm) permit faster migration of guest molecules in the host frameworks. Since fast mass transfer of the reactants and products to and from the active sites is required for catalysts, the concept of infusing mesopores into zeolite particles has attracted much attention. This review covers articles published within the past five years describing different methods of creating and characterizing mesopores in zeolitic particles. The experimental conditions and pore structural parameters of mesoporous zeolites discussed in this review are included in the Summary as Table 1. The main approaches toward making mesopore-containing regular structures are as follows: