Journal
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Volume 74, Issue -, Pages 441-447Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.08.048
Keywords
Glycerol; Dry reforming; Lanthanum; Nickel catalyst; Syngas
Funding
- Ministry of Education, Malaysia [RDU121216]
- Universiti Malaysia Pahang [GRS120377]
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A 3 wt% La-promoted Ni/Al2O3 catalyst was prepared via wet co-impregnation technique and physicochemically-characterized. Lanthanum was responsible for better metal dispersion; hence higher BET specific surface area (96.0 m(2) g(-1)) as compared to the unpromoted Ni/Al2O3 catalyst (85.0 m(2) g(-1)). In addition, the La-promoted catalyst possessed finer crystallite size (9.1 nm) whilst the unpromoted catalyst measured 12.8 nm. Subsequently, glycerol dry reforming was performed at atmospheric pressure and temperatures ranging from 923 to 1123 K employing CO2-to-glycerol ratio from zero to five. Significantly, the reaction results have yielded syngas as main gaseous products with H-2:CO ratios always below than 2.0 with concomitant maximum 96% glycerol conversion obtained at the CO2-to-glycerol ratio of 1.67. In addition, the glycerol consumption rate can be adequately captured using power law modelling with the order of reactions equal 0.72 and 0.14 with respect to glycerol and CO2 whilst the activation energy was 35.0 kJ mol(-1). A 72 h longevity run moreover revealed that the catalyst gave a stable catalytic performance. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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