A Lamellar MWW Zeolite With Silicon and Niobium Oxide Pillars: A Catalyst for the Oxidation of Volatile Organic Compounds

Autor: Rosana Balzer, Christian W. Lopes, Sibele B. C. Pergher, Avelino Corma, Anderson Joel Schwanke, Debora Motta Meira, Urbano Díaz
Přispěvatelé: Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
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RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia
ISSN: 1521-3765
Popis: [EN] In this work, an MWW-type zeolite with pillars containing silicon and niobium oxide was synthesized to obtain a hierarchical zeolite. The effect of niobium insertion in the pillaring process was determined by combining a controllable acidity and accessibility in the final material. All pillared materials had niobium occupying framework positions in pillars and extra-framework positions. The pillared material, Pil-Nb-4.5 with 4.5 wt % niobium, did not compromise the mesoporosity formed by pillaring, while the increase of niobium in the structure gradually decreased the mesoporosity and ordering of lamellar stacking. The morphology of the pillared zeolites and the niobium content were found to directly affect the catalytic activity. Specifically, we report on the activity of the MWW-type zeolites with niobium catalyzing the gas-phase oxidation of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which is an important reaction for clean environmental. All produced MWW-type zeolites with niobium were catalytically active, even at low temperatures and low niobium loading, and provided excellent conversion efficiencies.
A.J.S. thanks the CordenacAo de Aperfeicoamento de Pessoal de Nivel Superior-Brasil (CAPES)-Finance Code 001, the PDSE program (process number 99999.004779/2014-02) and the prof. Claudio Radtke from the PPGQ-UFRGS for the XPS analyses. C.W.L. is grateful to INOMAT/CAPES for a postdoctoral fellowship. U.D. thanks the funding by the Spanish Government (MAT2017-82288-C2-1-P).
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