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Life cycle assessment of Ni-alumina catalyst

Authors: Audrlická Vavrušová Lenka | Čapek Libor | Baťa Robert | Pouzar Miloslav

Year: 2014

Type of publication: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Page from-to: nestránkováno

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Language	Name	Abstract	Keywords
eng	Life cycle assessment of Ni-alumina catalyst	Ni-based catalysts are attractive industrial catalysts in many reactions such as hydrogenation, reforming, hydrocracking and oxidative dehydrogenation of lights alkanes such as ethane (C2-ODH) and propane (C3-ODH). The oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane (C2-ODH) is an attractive process of the production of ethylene. Ethylene is currently produced by pyrolysis and as a by-product in catalytic cracking. C2-ODH is thermodynamically favoured process and the reaction is not limited by coke formation [1]. In this work we are focusing on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) analysis of the production of Ni-alumina catalyst and the efficiency of ethylene production. To fulfil this aim we focused on the separate problems of Ni-alumina catalyst preparation (impregnation, thermal treatment) and catalytic reaction. LCA analysis is for example used to analyse the process of the utilization and production of biofuels. This work contribute to the LCA analysis of heterogeneously catalyse reaction with respect to the catalyst preparation and the catalytic reaction. The system boundaries are set for laboratory production of catalysts. In this work we used data from European reference Life-Cycle Database (EPLCA) for electrical energy and basic input substances. We found a lot of articles on general topics LCA (waste management, recycling materials…)[2] [3], but It is only few works focusing on this topic.	Life cycle assessment; Ni-alumina; catalyst