Sandwiched SiO2@Ni@ZrO2 as a coke resistant nanocatalyst for dry reforming of methane

Dou, Jian; Zhang, Riguang; Hao, Xiaobin; Bao, Zhenghong; Wu, Tianpin; Wang, Baojun; Yu, Fei

doi:10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.05.021

Title: Sandwiched SiO₂@Ni@ZrO₂ as a coke resistant nanocatalyst for dry reforming of methane

Journal Article · 07 May 2019 · Applied Catalysis B: Environmental

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2019.05.021 · OSTI ID:1630316

Dou, Jian ^[1]; Zhang, Riguang ^[2]; Hao, Xiaobin ^[2]; Bao, Zhenghong ^[1]; Wu, Tianpin ^[3]; Wang, Baojun ^[2];

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Mississippi State Univ., Mississippi State, MS (United States)
Taiyuan Univ. of Technology (China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Design active and coke resistant Ni based catalysts is critical for implementation of dry reforming of methane technology. In this work, coke resistant SiO₂@Ni@ZrO₂ catalyst has been successfully prepared through precipitation of nickel nitrate with ammonia onto silica spheres, followed by coating with porous ZrO₂ shell. Through thermal treatment in air and hydrogen, nickel nanoparticles with size of 6 nm were sandwiched between silica core and zirconia shell. The ZrO₂ coated Ni catalyst exhibited a high activity of (similar to)13.0 mol CH4 per gram of Ni per hour for methane dry reforming at 700 degrees C, which is more than 6 times higher than that of SiO₂@Ni catalyst under the same reaction condition. The SiO₂@Ni@ZrO₂ catalyst is also coke resistant as no carbon formation was observed for methane dry reforming at 700 degrees C for 20 h. As a comparison, carbon nanotubes formed over SiO₂@Ni catalyst during dry reforming reaction with a coking rate of 0.019 g of carbon formed per gram of catalyst per hour. Operando XANES/EXAFS study of SiO₂@Ni@ZrO₂ catalyst confirmed metallic Ni phase during methane dry reforming from 400 to 800 degrees C. Theoretical calculations suggests that ZrO₂ stabilized Ni clusters lowers the highest dissociation energy barrier of CH₄ and CO₂ by 1.37 and 2.56 eV comparing to bulk Ni, increasing dry reforming activity on SiO₂@Ni@ZrO₂ catalyst. Furthermore, the higher binding energy of CO₂ over CH4 on SiO₂@Ni@ZrO₂ leads to enrichment of CO₂ on catalyst surface, which mitigates coke formation

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC); U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357

OSTI ID:: 1630316

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1778288

Journal Information:: Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Vol. 254, Issue C; ISSN 0926-3373

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Country of Publication:: United States

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