Recent trends and fundamental insights in the methanol-to-hydrocarbons process

I Yarulina, AD Chowdhury, F Meirer, BM Weckhuysen… - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
The production of high-demand chemical commodities such as ethylene and propylene
(methanol-to-olefins), hydrocarbons (methanol-to-hydrocarbons), gasoline (methanol-to …

Aromatics production via methanol-mediated transformation routes

T Li, T Shoinkhorova, J Gascon, J Ruiz-Martinez - ACS Catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
The methanol-to-aromatics (MTA) process is regarded as a promising route to produce
aromatic commodities through non-petroleum carbon resources, such as biomass, waste …

Elucidation of radical-and oxygenate-driven paths in zeolite-catalysed conversion of methanol and methyl chloride to hydrocarbons

A Cesarini, S Mitchell, G Zichittella, M Agrachev… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding hydrocarbon generation in the zeolite-catalysed conversions of methanol
and methyl chloride requires advanced spectroscopic approaches to distinguish the …

Molecular routes of dynamic autocatalysis for methanol-to-hydrocarbons reaction

S Lin, Y Zhi, W Chen, H Li, W Zhang… - Journal of the …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The industrially important methanol-to-hydrocarbons (MTH) reaction is driven and sustained
by autocatalysis in a dynamic and complex manner. Hitherto, the entire molecular routes …

Lifetime improvement in methanol-to-olefins catalysis over chabazite materials by high-pressure H2 co-feeds

SS Arora, DLS Nieskens, A Malek, A Bhan - Nature Catalysis, 2018 - nature.com
Mitigating catalyst deactivation in the industrially deployed process of methanol-to-olefins
conversion over HSAPO-34 is a critical challenge. Here, we demonstrate that lifetime in …

Critical role of formaldehyde during methanol conversion to hydrocarbons

Y Liu, FM Kirchberger, S Müller, M Eder… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Formaldehyde is an important intermediate product in the catalytic conversion of methanol to
olefins (MTO). Here we show that formaldehyde is present during MTO with an average …

High Zn/Al ratios enhance dehydrogenation vs hydrogen transfer reactions of Zn-ZSM-5 catalytic systems in methanol conversion to aromatics

I Pinilla-Herrero, E Borfecchia, J Holzinger… - Journal of catalysis, 2018 - Elsevier
Two series of Zn-ZSM-5 catalysts were prepared by ion exchanging two commercial zeolites
with different Si/Al ratios (40 and 15) with increasing Zn loadings. The nature of the Zn sites …

Unraveling the mechanism of the initiation reaction of the methanol to olefins process using ab initio and DFT calculations

PN Plessow, F Studt - ACS catalysis, 2017 - ACS Publications
We report a theoretical investigation of the initiation of the methanol to olefin process, where
we study the full reaction mechanism from methanol to propylene. The zeolite H-SSZ-13 is …

Deactivation of zeolites and zeotypes in methanol-to-hydrocarbons catalysis: Mechanisms and circumvention

A Hwang, A Bhan - Accounts of chemical research, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Solid catalysts deployed in industrial processes often undergo deactivation,
requiring frequent replacement or regeneration to recover the loss in activity. Regeneration …