RT Journal Article
T1 Local induction heating capabilities of zeolites charged with metal and oxide MNPs for application in HDPE hydrocracking: a proof of concept
A1 Muñoz, Marta
A1 Morales, Irene
A1 Costa, Cátia S.
A1 Multigner, Marta
A1 Presa Muñoz De Toro, Patricia Marcela De La
A1 Alonso Gómez, José Miguel
A1 Silva, Joao M.
A1 Ribeiro, Maria do Rosário
A1 Torres, Belen
A1 Rams, Joaquín
AB Zeolites are widely used in high-temperature oil refining processes such as fluid catalytic cracking (FCC), hydrocracking, and aromatization. Significant energy cost are associated with these processes due to the high temperatures required. The induction heating promoted by magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) under radio frequency fields could contribute to solving this problem by providing a supplementary amount of heat in a nano-localized way, just at the active centre site where the catalytic process takes place. In this study, the potential of such a complementary route to reducing energetic requirements is evaluated. The catalytic cracking reaction under a hydrogen atmosphere (hydrocracking) applied to the conversion of plastics was taken as an application example. Thus, a commercial zeolite catalyst (H-USY) was impregnated with three different magnetic nanoparticles: nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), maghemite (gamma-Fe_(2)O_(3)), and their combinations and subjected to electromagnetic fields. Temperature increases of approximately 80 degrees C were measured for H-USY zeolite impregnated with gamma-Fe_(2)O_(3) and Ni-gamma-Fe_(2)O_(3) due to the heat released under the radio frequency fields. The potential of the resulting MNPs derived catalyst for HDPE (high-density polyethylene) conversion was also evaluated by thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) under hydrogen atmosphere. This study is a proof of concept to show that induction heating could be used in combination with traditional resistive heating as an additional energy supplier, thereby providing an interesting alternative in line with a greener technology.
PB MDPI
SN 1996-1944
YR 2021
FD 2021-02-22
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/7422
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/7422
LA eng
NO © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPIThis research was funded by Mineco Projects MAT2015-66334-C3-3-R and RTI2018-095856B-C21. Comunidad de Madrid Project Aditimat-CM-S2018/NMT-4411, P2018/NMT-4321 and MAT2015-63974-C4 and Ayudas a la Movilidad PDI URJC 2018 and PDI URJC 2019.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN)/ FEDER
NO Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO)
NO Comunidad de Madrid
NO Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (URJC)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 10 abr 2025