Mixture effects in alkane/cycloalkane hydroconversion over Pt/HUSY : carbon number impact

This repository includes experimental data associated with the publication: N.Korica, A.Ben Hassine, H.Dao Thi, L.Bergaoui, K.Van Geem, P.S.F.Mendes, J.De Clercq, J.W.Thybaut “Mixture effects in alkane/cycloalkane hydroconversion over Pt/HUSY : carbon number impact”, submitted to Fuel journal in December 2021.

The impact of carbon number of reacting alkanes and cycloalkanes on mixture effects in hydroconversion over Pt/HUSY has been studied by experiments on high-throughput setup by feeding equimolar mixtures of n-octane and tert-butylcyclohexane, and n-decane and methylcyclohexane.  In order to investigate the above-mentioned impact, the kinetic behavior was examined at various experimental conditions, over Pt/HUSY catalyst with three different Pt loadings and HUSY zeolite with Si/Al molar ratio of 6.

The process conditions which were used for every feed are summarized:

• Pure n-octane
  • Catalysts : 0.07 and 0.1 wt%Pt/HUSY (poorly- and well-balanced catalyst for pure n-octane)
  • Temperature, K : 523 ; 543
  • Pressure, bar : 10 ; 20
  • Partial pressure of reactant, bar : 0.05
• Pure tert-butylcyclohexane
  • Catalysts : 0.07 and 0.3 wt%Pt/HUSY
  • Temperature, K : 523 ; 543
  • Pressure, bar : 10 ; 20
  • Partial pressure of reactant, bar : 0.05
• Equimolar mixture of n-octane and tert-butylcyclohexane
  • Catalysts : 0.07 and 0.3 wt%Pt/HUSY
  • Temperature, K : 523 ; 543
  • Pressure, bar : 10 ; 20
  • Partial pressure of each reactant, bar : 0.05
• Pure n-decane
  • Catalysts : 0.07 and 0.3 wt%Pt/HUSY (poorly- and well-balanced catalyst for pure n-decane)
  • Temperature, K : 523 ; 543
  • Pressure, bar : 10 ; 20
  • Partial pressure of reactant, bar : 0.05
• Pure methylcyclohexane
  • Catalysts : 0.07 and 0.1 wt%Pt/HUSY
  • Temperature, K : 523 ; 543
  • Pressure, bar : 10 ; 20
  • Partial pressure of reactant, bar : 0.05
• Equimolar mixture of n-decane and methylcyclohexane
  • Catalysts : 0.07 and 0.3 wt%Pt/HUSY
  • Temperature, K : 523 ; 543
  • Pressure, bar : 10 ; 20
  • Partial pressure of each reactant, bar : 0.05

The kinetics of hydroconversion of different alkane/cycloalkane feeds were compared based on conversion of reactants and yields to isomers. The data are classified based on figures in the Article.

Figure 5 :  n-Octane conversion as a function of space time at 10 bar pressure - comparison of experiments with pure n-octane and in mixture with methylcycyclohexane and tert-butylcyclohexane

Figure 6 : Octane isomer yields as a function of n-octane conversion - comparison of experiments with pure n-octane and in mixture with tert-butylcyclohexane

Figure 7 : tert-Butylcyclohexane conversion as a function of space time at 10 bar pressure - comparison of experiments with pure tert-butylcyclohexane and in mixture with n-octane

Figure 8 : Butylcyclohexane isomer yields as a function of tert-butylcyclohexane conversion comparison of experiments with pure tert-butylcyclohexane and in mixture with n-octane

Figure 9 : n-Decane conversion as a function of space time at 10 bar pressure - comparison of experiments with pure n-decane and in mixture with methylcyclohexane

Figure 10 : Decane isomer yields as a function of n-decane conversion - comparison of experiments with pure n-decane and in mixture with methylcyclohexane

Figure 11 : Methylcyclohexane conversion as a function of space time at 10 bar pressure - comparison of experiments with pure methylcyclohexane and in mixture with n-decane

Figure S9 : n-Octane conversion as a function of space time at 20 bar pressure - comparison of experiments with pure n-octane and in mixture with methylcycyclohexane and tert-butylcyclohexane

Figure S10 : n-Octane conversion as a function of space time - comparison of experiments with pure n-octane and in mixture with methylcycyclohexane and tert-butylcyclohexane

Figure S13 : tert-Butylcyclohexane conversion as a function of space time at 20 bar pressure - comparison of experiments with pure tert-butylcyclohexane and in mixture with n-octane

Figure S14 : tert-Butylcyclohexane conversion as a function of space time - comparison of experiments with pure tert-butylcyclohexane and in mixture with n-octane

Figure S15 : n-Decane conversion as a function of space time at 20 bar pressure - comparison of experiments with pure n-decane and in mixture with methylcyclohexane

Figure S16 : n-Decane conversion as a function of space time - comparison of experiments with pure n-decane and in mixture with methylcyclohexane

Figure S17 : Methylcyclohexane conversion as a function of space time at 20 bar pressure - comparison of experiments with pure methylcyclohexane and in mixture with n-decane

Figure S18 : Methylcyclohexane conversion as a function of space time - comparison of experiments with pure methylcyclohexane and in mixture with n-decane