Presentation Profile
Rapid Catalyst Conversion of Ethanol to Ethylene
Currently Scheduled: 10/16/2024 - 8:00 AM - 8:20 AM
Room: Bluebonnet
Main Author
Rojin Belganeh - Frontier Lab Americas
Abstract:
Characterizing a catalyst can be time-consuming and expensive and often requires a sophisticated pilot-scale catalytic reactor. The Tandem μ-Reactor was developed to screen laboratory-prepared catalysts rapidly.
The reactor consists of a pyrolysis furnace and a catalytic reactor, and it can be directly connected to a gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GC/MS) to observe real-time changes in the products formed by the gas-phase catalytic reaction between the sample and the catalyst.
This talk illustrates how the Tandem µ-Reactor GC/MS system can be used to characterize the catalytic conversion of ethanol to ethylene.
