Abstract:Mordenite (MOR) is an efficient catalyst for dimethyl ether (DME) carbonylation reaction. The synthesis of hierarchical Mordenite by using soft templates is an important method to further improve its catalytic performance. In this paper, a solvent-free method was used to synthesize Mordenite with hierarchical structure using sodium dodecyl benzene sulfonate (SDBS) as a soft template. The as-synthesized samples are characterized by X-ray powder diffraction, N2 adsorption desorption, NH3 adsorption desorption, pyridine infrared spectroscopy and other methods. The characterization results indicate that the addition of SDBS could improve the relative crystallinity of the sample, and the addition of SDBS significantly increases the specific surface area, mesoporous volume, and total pore volume of the sample, and improves the mass transfer efficiency of the reaction. Besides, SDBS can induce Al atoms to preferentially enter the 8-member ring channel to form strong acid and medium-strong acid sites during the synthesis process, thereby increasing the number of active sites for carbonylation reactions. The carbonylation reaction of DME was evaluated at 200 °C, 0.5 MPa, GHSV = 2000 mL / (g·h), DME : CO = 97.5 : 2.5 (mol). The results demonstrated that the highest conversion of DME increased by nearly 1.8 times with the addition of 4% SDBS under the premise of maintaining high selectivity of methyl acetate (MA), which exhibited the best carbonylation performance.