Chemie Ingenieur Technik, Vol.85, No.11, 1671-1679, 2013
Strong Reactivity Enhancement through Molecular Traffic Control in Zeolites
In the past, the investigation of catalytic reactivity enhancement through molecular traffic control (MTC) by means of dynamical Monte Carlo simulations of catalysis was initiated in simple, idealized zeolite channel networks. These results are reviewed here and, emphasizing more recent work, the conditions of reactivity enhancement through MTC are examined for a realistic channel topology based on the pore structure of the zeolite TNU-9. For a wide range of reaction rates a very strong MTC effect can be found that increases with grain size. This effect is argued to be a generic feature of a certain class of zeolite pore topologies.