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Glycerol dehydration to value-added acrolein over zeolite catalysts is a useful approach to offer asustainable economic route for the biodiesel industry. Glycerol dehydration over H-ZSM-5 withconventional morphology often exhibits a significant mass transfer limitation and inhibits the access toactive sites in the micropores, which causes low activity, selectivity, and severe catalyst deactivation. Inthis study, a significant impact of b-axis channel length on acrolein selectivity and catalyst activity wasrevealed by using H-ZSM-5 synthesized with varied channel length in b-axis of 60, 130, 180, and 250 nm. Complete glycerol conversion and high acrolein selectivity (88%) were observed over H-ZSM-5 with60 nm channels length in b-axis, due to high availability of active sites and enhanced diffusion throughthe shortest channels, which dramatically suppressed the coke formation. The catalysts with long b-axischannels exhibited a slow internal diffusion, leading to increased polymerization side reactions and cokeformation.