文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Method for generating pore networks in porous particles of arbitrary shape, and its application to catalytic hydrogenation of benzene

作者：Ye, Guanghua[1]; Sun, Yuanyuan[1]; Zhou, Xinggui[1]; Zhu, Kake[1]; Zhou, Jinghong[1]; Coppens, Marc-Olivier[2]

机构：[1] State Key Laboratory of Chemical Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, China; [2] Department of Chemical Engineering, University College London, London, WC1E 7JE, United Kingdom

年份：2017

卷号：329

起止页码：56

外文期刊名：Chemical Engineering Journal

收录：EI(收录号：20171403538552)

语种：英文

外文关键词：Benzene - Catalysts - Hydrogenation - Cylinders (shapes) - Porous materials - Stochastic systems

摘要：A method is established to generate pore networks within domains of arbitrary shape, as long as the domain can be mathematically described by a set of inequalities. In this method, a stochastic network algorithm is adopted to construct pore network skeletons, which are then cut into the desired shapes using a new pore network cutting algorithm. The latter can be embedded into other methods to transplant its ‘pore network cutting’ function. Using this method, pore networks with four archetypical two-dimensional shapes (namely, cross-sections of one-holed rings, trilobes, four-holed rings, and wheels) and four three-dimensional shapes (namely, spheres, cylinders, trilobes, and hollow cylinders) are constructed as examples. Then, some of these pore networks are applied to simulate diffusion and reaction in Pd/γ-alumina catalyst particles for hydrogenation of benzene to cyclohexane. It is shown that the randomness of the pore network and the external particle shape significantly affect the performance of catalysts, because of their impact on effective diffusivity and diffusion length, respectively, indicating that this structural information must be accounted for to achieve a model with high accuracy. The versatile method proposed in this article is ideal to study the effect of particle shape and pore network structure on the performance of porous materials for catalysis and other applications. ? 2017 The Authors