Suppression of the Aromatic Cycle in Methanol-to-Olefins Reaction over ZSM-5 by Post-Synthetic Modification Using Calcium

Abstract

The front cover artwork for Issue 19/2016 is provided by researchers from the Catalysis Engineering group at TU Delft (The Netherlands). The image shows that after impregnation with Ca, ZSM-5 becomes a “super-catalyst”, which is able to suppress formation of aromatics thus increasing selectivity to the desired propylene in MTO reaction. See the Full Paper itself at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cctc.201600650.