Lei Shi, B. Yan, Danfeng Shao
Feb 1, 2017
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Chinese Journal of Catalysis
Abstract
Abstract Boron nitride containing hydroxyl groups efficiently catalysed oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane to ethylene, offering rather high selectivity (95%) but only small amount of CO2 formation (0.4%) at a given ethane conversion of 11%. Even at high conversion level of 63%, the selectivity of ethylene retained at 80%, which is competitive with the energy-demanding industrialized steam cracking route. A long-term test for 200 h resulted in stable conversion and product selectivity, showing the excellent catalytic stability. Both experimental and computational studies have identified that the hydrogen abstraction of B-OH groups by molecular oxygen dynamically generated the active sites and triggered ethane dehydrogenation.