Gas-phase dehydration of glycerol to produce acrolein was investigated over tungstated zirconia catalysts with and without niobium doping, in order to correlate the catalytic activity and life-stability with the acid/ base properties of the catalysts. The results of NH 3 -and CO 2 -TPD experiments showed that the tungstated zirconia catalysts contained both acidic and basic sites, and the amounts decreased with the increase in calcination temperature. The most suitable calcination temperature for 20% WO 3 /ZrO 2 as the catalyst in the gas phase dehydration of glycerol to form acrolein was 450 C in consideration of achieving high acrolein yield and long lifetime of the catalyst. Not only the amount of acid but also the amount of base affected the acrolein yield. Doping a small amount of niobium further increased the life-stability of the catalysts, attributed to the decrease in the number of basic sites. The influence of Nb is mostly in neutralization of surface acidity electronically instead of geometric blocking of the basic sites. Moreover, fine tuning the ratio of acid/base sites was found to be important in achieving good catalytic performance in the gas-phase dehydration of glycerol to generate acrolein. The ratio of acid/base sites in the range of 4-5.4 gave the highest glycerol conversion, and acrolein yield and lowest catalyst decay rate. The spent catalysts were easily regenerated by calcination at 450 C, and the catalytic activities were retained well even after the second time of reuse.
Deep levels in the heteroepitaxial undoped InP layers grown directly on GaAs substrates by organometallic vapor-phase epitaxy have been investigated by deep-level transient spectroscopy. Two electron traps have been observed with activation energies of 0.4 and 0.57 eV in the temperature range between 150 and 310 K. The trap concentrations of these levels are in the order of 1015 cm−3 for samples with a carrier concentration of 1016 cm−3. Incorporation of atomic hydrogen into the InP layer by a photochemical vapor deposition system produces substantial decreases of the trap concentrations to 1014 cm−3 and of the carrier concentration to 1015 cm−3.
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