Comparative Study on Steam and Oxidative Steam Reforming of Methane with Noble Metal Catalysts

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• 作者：Um-E-Salma Amjad ; Antonio Vita ; Camilla Galletti ; Lidia Pino ; Stefania Specchia
• 刊名：Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：November 6, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：52
• 期：44
• 页码：15428-15436
• 全文大小：434K
• 年卷期：v.52,no.44(November 6, 2013)
• ISSN：1520-5045

文摘

Methane steam reforming (SR) and oxidative steam reforming (OSR) are two catalytic processes for generating syngas. Catalysts based on Ru, Rh, and Pt noble metals deposited over CeO₂ and Al₂O₃ carriers were prepared by solution combustion synthesis and tested toward the methane SR reaction. The best catalysts were further tested toward the methane OSR reaction, to see any benefit coming from the presence of a slight amount of oxygen. These catalysts were then characterized using Brunauer-Emmet-Teller (BET), CO chemisorption, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and X-ray diffraction (XRD) techniques. The highest conversion of methane was reached by the 1.5% Rh/CeO₂ catalyst for the methane SR reaction and by the 1.5% Ru/Al₂O₃ for the methane OSR reaction. These two best catalysts were then further compared in terms of hydrogen concentration, yield, H₂-to-CO molar ratio, and CO₂-to-CO selectivity ratio. The 1.5% Rh/CeO₂ catalyst for SR performed better than the 1.5% Ru/Al₂O₃ catalyst for OSR reaction, as it gave complete methane conversion at lower temperature (635 掳C), higher CO₂ selectivity (87.5%), and higher hydrogen concentration (74.4% dry volume). Its good catalytic activity could be ascribed to the high Rh dispersion over the CeO₂ carrier.