Method of cracking a hydrocarbon
AssigneeKing Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals
InventorsZuhair Omar Malaibari, Ijaz Hussain
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Abstract
A method of cracking a hydrocarbon including contacting the hydrocarbon with a catalyst; where on the contacting, the hydrocarbon is cracked into a plurality of compounds, each having a smaller number of carbon atoms than the hydrocarbon. The catalyst includes an aluminosilicate zeolite, the aluminosilicate zeolite includes a weight ratio of SiO2 to Al2O3 of 10-200:1. Particles of the aluminosilicate zeolite have a flake shape with an average longest dimension of 10 nanometers (nm) to 50 nm and the flakes are stacked on top of one another.
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A method of cracking a hydrocarbon, comprising:
- contacting the hydrocarbon with an aluminosilicate zeolite catalyst to produce a cracking product,
- wherein the aluminosilicate zeolite comprises an MCM-22 crystal phase and a weight ratio of SiO2 to Al2O3 of 19-28.8:1,
- wherein particles of the aluminosilicate zeolite have a flake shape with an average longest dimension of 10-50 nm,
- wherein the flakes are stacked on top of one another, and
- wherein the aluminosilicate zeolite has an average pore size of 2-5 nm.
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