SPHERICAL NATERIAL COMPRISING METALLIC NANOPARTICLES TRAPPED IN A MESOSTRUCTURED OXIDE MATRIX AND USE THEREOF AS CATALYST IN HYDROCARBORN REFINING PROCESS

摘要

An inorganic material is described, constituted by at least two elementary spherical particles, each of said spherical particles comprising metallic nanoparticles having at least one band with a wave number in the range 750 to 1050 cm-1 in Raman spectroscopy and containing one or more metals selected from vanadium, niobium, tantalum, molybdenum and tungsten, said metallic nanoparticles being trapped in a mesostructured matrix based on an oxide of an element Y selected from silicon, aluminium, titanium, tungsten, zirconium, gallium, germanium, tin, antimony, lead, vanadium, iron, manganese, hafnium, niobium, tantalum, yttrium, cerium, gadolinium, europium and neodymium. Said matrix has pores with a diameter in the range 1.5 to 50 nm and amorphous walls with a thickness in the range 1 to 30 nm. Said elementary spherical particles have a maximum diameter of 200 microns and said metallic nanoparticles have a maximum dimension strictly less than 1 nm.