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Surface Study on the Supported Molten Salt Catalyst  

Kim, Jong Pal (Department of Chemical Engineering, Dongeui University)
Lee, Kwang Hyun (Department of Chemical Engineering, Dongeui University)
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Applied Chemistry for Engineering / v.20, no.4, 2009 , pp. 381-385 More about this Journal
Abstract
A basic objective is the preparation and surface studies of supported molten salt catalysts because molten salts can stay as the liquid phase in the range of the ordinary reaction temperature. Many kinds of metal salt mixtures for the formation of molten salt phase are appliable but CuCl and KCl were selected in this study because Cu is considered catalytically reactive in many reactons. The loading of the molten salt was selected as 25 vol% of the total pore volume of ${\gamma}-alumina$ to provide reasonable exposed surface area. The surface structure of catalysts containing molten salts in the ${\gamma}-alumina$ was studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). CuCl and KCl were added into the ${\gamma}-alumina$ using concentrated hydrochloric acid solution by the impregnation technique. The surfaces of the prepared catalysts before and after heat treatments were compared and they suggested that the heat treatment of catalysts helped the formation of molten-salt although the surface compositions of CuCl and KCl were not uniform.
Keywords
supported; molten-salt; CuCl; KCl; liquid-phase;
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