Highly Active BEA Catalyst for Catalytic Cracking of n-Heptane.

Homemade BEA(HTS) catalysts prepared by the hydrothermal synthesis method exhibited much higher activity than commercial BEA, USY and ZSM-5 in catalytic cracking of n-heptane. It is characteristic that BEA(HTS) has a much larger amount of Brönsted acid sites than other zeolites. This is related to the high activity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]