Mesostructured aluminosilicate material

Abstract

A mesostructured aluminosilicate material is described, constituted by at least two spherical elementary particles, each of said spherical particles being constituted by a matrix based on silicon oxide and aluminium oxide, having a pore size in the range 1.5 to 30 nm, a Si / Al molar ratio of at least 1, having amorphous walls with a thickness in the range 1 to 20 nm, said spherical elementary particles having a maximum diameter of 10 μm. A process for preparing said material and its application in the fields of refining and petrochemistry are also described.

Description

[0001] The present invention relates to the field of mesostructured aluminosilicate materials with a high aluminium content. It also relates to the preparation of said materials which are obtained using the “aerosol” synthesis technique. The structural and textural properties of the materials of the invention and their acid-base properties render them particularly suitable for applications in the refining and petrochemicals fields. PRIOR ART [0002] Novel synthesis strategies for producing materials with a porosity which is well defined over a very broad range, from microporous materials to macroporous materials via materials with a hierarchical porosity, i.e. with pores of various sizes, have been under development in the scientific community since the middle of the 1990s (G J de A A Soler-Illia, C Sanchez, B Lebeau, J Patarin, Chem Rev 2002, 102, 4093). Materials are obtained in which the pore size is controlled. In particular, the development of syntheses using “mild chemistry” me...

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Benefits of technology

The invention is about a new type of material made up of small particles made of silicon oxide and aluminum oxide. These particles have a specific structure and size, and are arranged in a way that creates a high amount of aluminum and a specific ratio of silicon to aluminum. The material can be made using a process involving a surfactant and precursors, and can have a variety of uses.

Problems solved by technology

The hydrothermal stability and acid-basic properties developed by such aluminosilicates, however, did not allow them to be used on an industrial scale in refining processes or in petrochemistry, which has steadily led to the use of novel templates such as block copolymer type amphiphilic macromolecules, these latter producing mesostructured materials having a generally hexagonal, cubic or lamellar structure, with uniform sized pores in the range 4 to 50 nm and amorphous walls with a thickness in the range 3 to 7 nm.

Further, synthesis of such materials obtained by precipitation necessitates a step for autoclave ageing and not all of the reagents are integrated into the products in stoichiometric quantities as they can be found in the supernatant.

Low values for the molar ratio Si / Al are, however, difficult to obtain as it is difficult to incorporate large quantities of aluminium into the material using such particular operating procedures (D Zaho, J Feng, Q Huo, N Melosh, G H Fredrickson, B F Chmelke, G D Stucky, Science, 1998, 279, 548; Y-H Yue, A Gedeon, J-L Bonardet, J B d'Espinose, N Melosh, J Fraissard, Stud Surf Sci Catal 2000, 129, 209).

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