AROMATIZING CATALYST FOR LOWER HYDROCARBON, AND PRODUCTION OF AROMATIC COMPOUND USING THE CATALYST

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To obtain a catalyst for producing aromatic hydrocarbon such as benzene or naphthalene and hydrogen, by using a lower hydrocarbon such as natural gas, and a method for aromatizing lower hydrocarbon by using this catalyst. SOLUTION: The aromatizing catalyst for lower hydrocarbon consists of at least one kind of a metal selected from among zinc, gallium and cobalt and metallosilicate (1), molybdenum and at least one kind of a metal selected from among zinc, gallium, cobalt, chromium, ranthanum, neodium, samarium and yttrium and metallosilicate (2) and heteropolyacid containing at least one kind of a metal selected from among molybdenum, tungsten and vanadium and metallosilicate. In the presence of catalysts (1)-(3), lower hydrocarbon is reacted (4).