Title: | Nanoarchitectonics of Ni/CeO(2) Catalysts: The Effect of Pretreatment on the Low-Temperature Steam Reforming of Glycerol |
Author(s): | Wang Y; Zhu S; He S; Lu J; Liu J; Lu H; Song D; Luo Y; |
Address: | "Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China. The Innovation Team for Volatile Organic Compounds Pollutants Control and Resource Utilization of Yunnan Province, Kunming 650500, China. The Higher Educational Key Laboratory for Odorous Volatile Organic Compounds Pollutants Control of Yunnan Province, Kunming 650500, China. Research Center for Analysis and Measurement, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650093, China. Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming 650500, China" |
ISSN/ISBN: | 2079-4991 (Print) 2079-4991 (Electronic) 2079-4991 (Linking) |
Abstract: | "CeO(2) nanosphere-supported nickel catalysts were prepared by the wetness impregnation method and employed for hydrogen production from glycerol steam reforming. The dried catalyst precursors were either reduced by H(2) after thermal calcination or reduced by H(2) directly without calcination. The catalysts that were reduced by H(2) without calcination achieved a 95% glycerol conversion at a reaction temperature of only 475 degrees C, and the catalytic stability was up to 35 h. However, the reaction temperature required of catalysts reduced by H(2) with calcination was 500 degrees C, and the catalysts was rapidly inactivated after 25 h of reaction. A series of physicochemical characterization revealed that direct H(2) reduction without calcination enhanced the concentration of oxygen vacancies. Thus, the nickel dispersion was improved, the nickel nanoparticle size was reduced, and the reduction of nickel was increased. Moreover, the high concentration of oxygen vacancy not only contributed to the increase of H(2) yield, but also effectively reduced the amount of carbon deposition. The increased active nickel surface area and oxygen vacancies synergistically resulted in the superior catalytic performance for the catalyst that was directly reduced by H(2) without calcination. The simple, direct hydrogen reduction method remarkably boosts catalytic performance. This strategy can be extended to other supports with redox properties and applied to heterogeneous catalytic reactions involving resistance to sintering and carbon deposition" |
Keywords: | direct H2 reduction glycerol steam reforming hydrogen production oxygen vacancies; |
Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEWang, Yunzhu Zhu, Songshan He, Sufang Lu, Jichang Liu, Jiangping Lu, Huihui Song, Di Luo, Yongming eng 21666013, 42030712, 21966018, 2210060708, 2216060105, 22106055/National Natural Science Foundation of China/ 202101AS070026/Key Project of Natural Science Foundation of Yunnan Province/ 202101AU070025, 202105AE160019/Applied Basic Research Foundation of Yunnan Province/ No. YNWR-QNBJ-2018-067/Yunnan Ten Thousand Talents Plan Young & Elite talents Project/ Switzerland 2022/03/11 Nanomaterials (Basel). 2022 Feb 28; 12(5):816. doi: 10.3390/nano12050816" |