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The effect of crystal size of HMOR from micro size to 50 nm, with the apparent similar acid site density, on catalytic performance for the dimethyl ether (DME) carbonylation was investigated. The crystal size of HMOR is sensitive to the deactivation rate of DME carbonylation reaction, and the higher stability around 200 nm can be achieved. The characterization studies reveal that the diffusions of MA product play a key role during the induction and deactivation period in DME carbonylation. These will be helpful for guiding the large-scale synthesis of mordenite zeolites catalysts with high efficiencies for DME carbonylation.

Methyl glycolate (MG) was synthesized successfully from the carbonylation of HCHO using heteropoly- acids (HPAs) as catalysts, followed by esterification with methanol. The catalytic activities of different HPAs and effect of solvents and water amount in the reaction system were investigated with an autoclave under optimized reaction conditions. The stability and reusability of the catalysts were tested after sep- arating the ingredients from the reaction system by distillation under vacuum. MG yield above 89% could be obtained when H3PW12O40 and sulfolane are employed as catalyst and solvent, respectively. The per- formance of catalysts did not show any significant deterioration after 10 times recycle.

High-throughput screening of HZSM-5 supported metal-oxides catalysts were carried out for the coupling reaction of methane with CO to aromatics in a multi-stream reactor system. Zn/HZSM-5 and Mo/HZSM-5 were observed to be rather effective for the catalytic formation of aromatics from the coupling reaction of methane with CO. Temperature-programmed reaction has further proven the efficiency of the coupling of methane and CO over Zn/HZSM-5 catalyst. The results were also validated in a conventional fixed-bed reactor coupled with GC. The results propose that the coupling methane with CO toward benzene and naphthalene can be catalyzed by Zn/HZSM-5 at 500 °C. Both methane and CO are needed for the formation of reactive coke on the catalyst, and the reactive coke may be the initial product in the producing of hydrocarbons.

A multistream reactor for high-throughput examining the surface acidity by NH3-TPD method by application of multistream mass spectrometer screening (MSMSS) technique has been developed. This method allows for examining the surface acidity of 10 catalyst samples in about 6 h, which is an improvement over the traditional process. The demonstration of the feasibility of highthroughput TPD can be significant in convincing the hardened traditionalists in the heterogeneous catalysis community that, combinatorial methods indeed should have an important place in scientific catalyst research and development. The developed method could also be used for almost all the temperature-programmed analysis theoretically with careful designed multistream reactors.