Foam-Like Multi-Stage Porous Al-KIT-6-4T(WI) Catalyst for Efficient Catalyzing Biomass-Derived GVL to Butene

In this paper, the foam-like multi-stage porous 3wt%Al-KIT-6-4T(WI) catalyst was prepared and employed for efficient catalyzing biomass-derived GVL to butene. It is found that the prepared 3wt%Al-KIT-6-4T(WI) catalyst possess abundant mesoporous and presented the foam-like microstructure. Due to this, the 3wt%Al-KIT-6-4T(WI) catalyst has large specific surface area (517.09 m 2 ·g −1 ) and adequate amount of surface acid sites (both Brønsted and Lewis acid site). The special microstructure further improves the mass transfer efficiency of reactants and products. Under the optimized reaction conditions, the butene yield over the 3wt%Al-KIT-6-4T(WI) catalyst can up to 93.78% at 300 °C, after reacting 240 min. Moreover, the 3wt%Al-KIT-6-4T(WI) catalyst still showed excellent regeneration stability, and above 72% butene yield can be maintained after 7th cycle tests. Graphical Abstract