Kinetics of zeolite-catalyzed heptane hydroisomerization and hydrocracking with CBMC-modeled adsorption terms
Zeolite Beta as a large pore base case
Umang Agarwal (Shell Global Solutions International B.V.)
Marcello Rigutto (Shell Global Solutions International B.V.)
Erik Zuidema (Shell Global Solutions International B.V.)
A.P.J. Jansen (Shell Technology Centre Bangalore)
A Poursaeidesfahani (TU Delft - Process and Energy)
Shrinjay Sharma (Shell Technology Centre Bangalore)
David Dubbeldam (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Thijs J H Vlugt (TU Delft - Engineering Thermodynamics)
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Abstract
A reactor model that deconvolutes thermodynamics of adsorption of hydrocarbon in the pores of zeolite Beta, obtained by Configurational-bias Monte Carlo simulations, from intrinsic, intraporous kinetics of hydroisomerization and hydrocracking reactions, provides a good quantitative description of all significant reactions in the kinetic network for interconversion and cracking of different heptane isomers. Activation enthalpies obtained for intraporous reactions follow the expected order according to the carbenium ion formalism: methyl shift< ethyl shift < isom(B) ∼ crack(B2) < crack(B1) < crack(C) ∼ crack(D) < crack(E) and apparently within each isomerization class, in terms of carbenium ions formally involved: sec → tert < sec → sec ∼ tert → tert < tert → sec. except for the ethyl shift reaction forming 3-ethylpentane. Cracking happens primarily through 2,4-dimethylpentane (type B2), regardless of the initial reactant. The model can be subsequently used to separate the effect of pore structure on selective adsorption and on intraporous reaction kinetics. Zeolite Beta will serve as a base case for a comparison of different zeolite structures.
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