Saturday, April 28, 2012

SMSI-like behavior and Ni promotion effect on NiZnAl catalysts in steam reforming of methanol

CATEGORY: METHANOL
Catalysis Communications, Volume 22, 10 May 2012, Pages 68–73
SMSI-like behavior and Ni promotion effect on NiZnAl catalysts in steam reforming of methanol
Yong Men, , Mei Yang
Dalian National Laboratory for Clean Energy, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Zhongshan Road 457, 116023, Dalian, PR China
Abstract
Researchers developed a series of NiZnAl catalysts for hydrogen production by methanol steam reforming within microchannel reactor. Results indicate that the coexistence of Ni and Zn in bimetallic catalysts results in superior catalytic performance for hydrogen production compared with monometallic catalysts
This is in spite of the fact the former possesses the lower surface area. The difference between the catalytic performances could mainly be attributed to the Ni promotion effect associated with SMSI-like geometric effects and interpreted by a hypothesized encapsulation model corroborated by the characterizations.
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