1. Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China 2. School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology of China, Shenyang 110016, China
In light of the challenges associated with catalyst separation and recovery, as well as the low production efficiency resulting from intermittent operation for titanium silicalite-1 (TS-1) catalyzed phenol hydroxylation to dihydroxybenzene in the slurry bed, researchers keep on exploring the use of a continuous fixed bed to replace the slurry bed process in recent years. This study focuses on preparing a TS-1 coated structured catalyst on SiC foam, which exhibits significant process intensification in performance. We investigated the kinetics of this structured catalyst and compared it with those of extruded TS-1 catalyst; the dynamic equations of the two catalysts were obtained. It was observed that both catalysts followed E-R adsorption mechanism model, with an effective internal diffusion factor ratio between structured and extruded TS-1 of approximately 7.71. It was confirmed that the foamed SiC-based structured TS-1 catalyst exhibited significant improvements in phenol hydroxylation in fixed-bed reactor due to its well-developed pore structure, good thermal conductivity, excellent internal mass transfer performance, and short reactant diffusion distance, leading to higher utilization efficiency of active components. This finding also provides a foundation for designing and developing phenol hydroxylation processes in fixed-bed using structured catalysts through computational fluid dynamics calculations.
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