Physicochemical and textural characterization of vanadium-magnesium mixed oxides

L. Balderas-Tapia, J. A. Wang, I. Hernández-Pérez, G. G. Aguilar-Ríos, P. Schacht

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Abstract

A series of vanadium-magnesium mixed oxides (V-Mg-O) with a mesoporous structure used for the propane oxidative dehydrogenation was synthesized by combining the impregnation and precipitation methods. Several techniques such as N2 physisorption, X-ray diffraction (XRD), FTIR and temperature-programmed reduction (TPR) were applied to characterize the textural properties, phase composition and surface oxygen reduction features of the oxides. Textural properties of the calcined V-Mg-O oxides were found very sensitive to chemical composition: bimodal or multimodal pore size distributions was developed, which progressively varied with vanadium content. XRD analysis and infrared (IR) characterization confirm that the V-Mg-O oxides consist of a Mg3V2O8 structure with VO4 tetrahedral units together with periclase phase. Magnesium incorporation with vanadium completely inhibits the formation of V2O5 containing exposed V=O bonds. TPR results showed two peaks located between 500 and 750 °C, corresponding to the reduction of V5+ species in distorted VO4 units and to V5+ species belonging to bulk Mg orthovanadate, respectively.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)3034-3039
Number of pages6
JournalMaterials Letters
Volume58
Issue number24
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 2004

Keywords

  • Mesoporous materials
  • Mg VO
  • Textural properties
  • V-Mg-O catalysts

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