Deactivation and regeneration of catalyst for cyclohexanone ammoximation in ceramic membrane reactor

The deactivation mechanism of TS-1 used in the organic solvent-free cyclohexanone ammoximation based on ceramic membrane reactor was investigated. The framework structure, crystal parameters, specific surface area and pore volume and the major composition of organic, of fresh and deactivated TS-1 zeolites were examined by XRD, FT-IR, N₂ adsorption, TGA/DSC and GC-MS techniques. The results have shown that the dissolution of silicon has taken place in the reaction system, but the topological structure and crystal volume of deactivated TS-1 zeolite remained almost the same to the fresh one. The catalyst deactivation was mainly due to the adsorption of cyclohexanone, cyclohexanone oxime and by-product on the surface and channel of TS-1 zeolite, and because of this, the specific surface area of TS-1 catalysts decreased by 52.6% and the pore volume decreased by 41.6%. The catalyst activity can be recovered by air calcination at 600℃ for 3 h.