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A Kinetic Study of Hydrocarbons Reactivity on Palladium Catalysts through a DFT Approach

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2011

Valeria Bertani ,
Carlo Cavallotti ,
Maurizio Masi  and
Sergio Carrá
Valeria Bertani
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica Applicata, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ITALY
Carlo Cavallotti
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica Applicata, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ITALY
Maurizio Masi
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica Applicata, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ITALY
Sergio Carrá
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Chimica Fisica Applicata, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, ITALY
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Abstract

Palladium clusters have been chosen to represent a typical supported heterogeneous catalyst and their interaction with hydrocarbons has been investigated theoretically. The calculations were performed through density functional theory and the Becke-Lee-Yang-Parr hybrid (B3LYP) functional was adopted to calculate exchange and correlation energy. An effective core potential basis set (ECP on core electrons and Dunning/Huzinaga on outer electrons) was found sufficiently accurate to reproduce experimental data. Clusters containing up to seven Pd atoms were considered and their interaction with hydrogen, methane and ethane and their fragments was analyzed and a kinetic study of the system was performed. Transition states structures and energies were calculated through quantum mechanics and kinetic constants were derived from a statistic thermodynamic approach. On the basis of such information, a kinetic model that accounts for ethane transformations. Finally the kinetic scheme was embedded in a plug flow reactor model and simulations were performed to test the validity of the developed mechanism. In this way information obtained at the atomic scale were adopted to study phenomena occurring on the much higher reactor scale.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 677: Symposium AA – Advances in Materials Theory and Modeling–Bridging Over Multiple-Length and Time Scales , 2001 , AA8.6
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2001

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