A highly efficient catalytic C4 alkane cracking over zeolite ZSM-23

Zeolite ZSM-23 materials with different Si/Al ratios were synthesized under static hydrothermal conditions using pyrrolidine as template. The samples obtained were characterized by powder X-ray diffraction, N2 adsorption/desorption, ICP atom emission, scanning electron microscopy and FTIR of adsorbed pyridine, and were found to be very highly efficient and stable catalysts for the catalytic cracking of C4 alkane.