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Comparison of Vanadium Oxide Catalysts for Synthesis of Benzene: Benzene Purity, Yields and Reconditioning Methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

T. B. Enerson ,
Herbert Haas ,
Kaveh Zarrabi  and
R. L. Titus
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Abstract

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This study compares vanadium oxide catalysts from three different sources: Noakes (N), Harshaw Chemical (H) and Kh. Arslanov at the St. Petersburg State University, Russia (R). The catalysts are used to convert acetylene to benzene in the last step of benzene synthesis. The organic purity of benzene in all three catalysts is high; 99.91–99.93% for (N) and (H) and 99.87% for (R). The benzene yields range from 90.0 to 94.3%. (N) averaged 92.6%, (H) averaged 91.1% and (R) averaged 92.0%. A conversion residue in the catalysts was analyzed for δ13C and found to be isotopically lighter relative to acetylene by −2.2% for (N) and (H) and −3.9% for (R). Benzene yields were studied on different reconditioning methods applied to all catalysts: heating to 400° in air averaged 92.3%; the same temperature with a half and half mixture of O2 and Ar averaged 91.9%, adding a half and half mixture of H2 and Ar at 200° to the end of this treatment averaged 91.8%. Based on this research, the obvious difference seen between the catalysts is in their trace by-products.

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Part 1: Methods
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Radiocarbon , Volume 40 , Issue 1: 16th International Radiocarbon Conference 16-20,1997 Groningen , 1997 , pp. 167 - 175
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Copyright © The American Journal of Science 

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