The morphology control of zeolite has attracted extensive attention because of its close relationship with catalytic performance. How to control the crystal morphology of EUO zeolite on premise of low silica to alumina ratio is a challenging task. This study provides a novel route for controlling the morphology of Al-rich EUO zeolite via inter-zeolite transformation from Si-rich *MRE zeolite within 24 h. The morphology change from nanocrystals to coffin-like single crystal exhibits the merits of inter-zeolite transformation strategy in morphology control. Characterization tracking reveals that the deposition of aluminum species on parent *MRE zeolite is not uniform and migration between different precursors happens during the crystallization. No obvious mass transfer is observed between the liquid and solids after 2 h indicating it may follow a solid phase crystallization mechanism. Compared with conventional EUO samples, the EUO zeolite obtained by inter-zeolite transformation exhibits higher p-xylene selectivity. This approach not only provides a novel morphology control strategy for Al-rich EUO zeolite, but also promotes the understanding of the zeolite crystallization through inter-zeolite transformation route.
The preparation of pure EUO zeolite under conventional conditions usually takes more than three days, limiting the application of the EUO zeolite. It is widely acquainted that the seed-assisted synthesis of zeolites without organotemplates is inexpensive, environmentally-friendly and lead to Al-rich products. However, synthesis with EUO seeds in the absence of organic-templates always leads to the formation of impurity phases. In this work, EUO zeolite (s-EUO) is successfully obtained by seed-directed synthesis without organotemplates. This is the first seed- directed synthesis of pure EUO zeolite with special Al source. Physicochemical characterization results show that the synthesized s-EUO zeolite exhibits high crystallinity and high specific surface area, and contains uniform crystals and plenty acidic sites. The s-EUO crystallization (by this method) occurs in a considerably shorter time (18 h) and in a more mild condition (160 °C, static state), compared to that of the conventional EUO zeolites (c-EUO, 72 h at 180 °C, at rotation) in the presence of organotemplate. Moreover, the catalytic performance of the H-form of the s-EUO zeolite is enhanced to that of the c-EUO zeolite for m-xylene isomerization, confirming the NH3-TPD results.
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