Agglutination of single catalyst particles during fluid catalytic cracking as observed by X-ray nanotomography

Chem Commun (Camb). 2015 May 11;51(38):8097-100. doi: 10.1039/c5cc00401b. Epub 2015 Apr 14.

Authors

F Meirer¹, S Kalirai, J Nelson Weker, Y Liu, J C Andrews, B M Weckhuysen

Affiliation

¹ Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis group, Debye Institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands. b.m.weckhuysen@uu.nl.

Abstract

Metal accumulation at the catalyst particle surface plays a role in particle agglutination during fluid catalytic cracking.