• journal_title：Clay Minerals
• Contributor：SHU-QIN ZHENG ; SHU-HONG SUN ; ZHI-FENG WANG ; XIONG-HOU GAO ; XIAN-LUN XU
• Publisher：Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland
• Date：2005-
• Format：text/html
• Language：en
• Identifier：10.1180/0009855054030175
• journal_abbrev：Clay Minerals
• issn：0009-8558
• volume：40
• issue：3
• firstpage：303
• section：Articles

The chemical and mineralogical compositions, the pore-diameter distribution, and the X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, thermogravimetric analysis and infrared spectroscopy of kaolin from Suzhou, China, and the physicochemical and catalytic properties of a catalyst prepared from that kaolin, are presented in this paper. Crystallized microspheres (CMR) containing ~30% NaY zeolite can be prepared from the Suzhou kaolin. The catalyst produced performs better than a standard commercial catalyst in terms of activity, attrition resistance, resistance to passivation by Ni and V and better gasoline and coke selectivity.