Catalytic Performance of Amorphous Ti/SiO2 in the Gas‐Phase Epoxidation of Propylene with H2O2

Abstract

AbstractThe epoxidation of propylene with dilute H2O2 aqueous solution over titanium silicalite‐1 (TS‐1) zeolite catalyst is a green chemical reaction for propylene oxide (PO) production. Carrying out the reaction in gas‐phase can get rid of problems caused by using methanol solvent. This paper reports an attempt of using non‐zeolite catalyst for the gas‐phase epoxidation. Amorphous Ti/SiO2, obtained by grafting amorphous SiO2 with TCl4 in ethanol solvent in a chemical liquid‐phase deposition (CLD) process, has been used as the catalyst. Results show that the CLD Ti/SiO2 with appropriate Si/Ti molar ratio is an active catalyst for gas‐phase epoxidation, achieving 9.8 % propylene conversion and 66.9 % PO selectivity with 40.3 % H2O2 utilization, which indicates that this amorphous Ti/SiO2 catalyst deserves extensive studies in the future.