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- Title
Enhancement of catalytic activity over Cu-supported montmorillonite catalyst for hydrogen production via steam reforming of dimethyl ether.
- Authors
Zhao, Yong-Hua; Luo, Hong-Xu; Feng, Xiao-Qian; Zhang, Qi-Jian; Wang, Huan; Zhang, Jia-Kang
- Abstract
Cu-Co/X-MMT (X = Na, SiO2) catalysts were prepared via impregnation method using Na-MMT and SiO2-MMT (montmorillonite pillared by SiO2) as the support and copper nitrate and cobalt nitrate as precursors. In addition, the citric acid was introduced during the preparation of Cu-Co/SiO2-MMT to obtain Cu-Co/SiO2-MMT-Ac catalyst. The catalysts were characterized by XRD, TEM, H2-TPR, XPS and N2 adsorption–desorption at low temperature. The results showed that the acidity and specific surface area of SiO2-MMT were larger than those of Na-MMT, thus resulting in dimethyl ether (DME) conversion and H2 yield of Cu-Co/SiO2-MMT higher than those of Cu-Co/Na-MMT during steam reforming of DME (SRD). However, for Cu-Co/SiO2-MMT, there was a large amount of methanol in the carbon-containing product due to the large particle size of Cu. The Cu particle size of Cu-Co/SiO2-MMT-Ac was decreased significantly due to the introduction of citric acid, thus accelerating the steam reforming of methanol reaction and enabling the timely conversion of the intermediate product methanol of SRD, resulting in the increasing DME conversion and H2 yield. Therefore, Cu-Co/SiO2-MMT-Ac was expected to be a potential catalyst for SRD.
- Subjects
MONTMORILLONITE catalysts; STEAM reforming; HYDROGEN production; CATALYTIC activity; METHYL ether; COPPER; CITRIC acid
- Publication
Research on Chemical Intermediates, 2024, Vol 50, Issue 2, p669
- ISSN
0922-6168
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11164-023-05193-2