The Catalytic Activities of New Metal Oxide Catalysts Modified by Graphene Oxide to Produce Propene and its Economic Evaluation

Abstract

New types of catalysts, “pure ferrite”, “ferrite coated with graphene oxide (GO‐ferrite)”, and a “reduced form of graphene oxide with ferrite (RGO‐ferrite)”, were synthesized to produce propene through the oxidative dehydrogenation (ODH) of propane. The performance of these catalysts (i.e., yield and selectivity) was examined through laboratory experiments over the temperature range, 623 to 923 K. Based on the experimental results, the contribution of GO to the selectivity to propene was determined, and a mathematical model of the reaction system was developed and applied. The model was applied to an economic evaluation of each catalyst, and the annual profits of these three different types of catalysts were compared.