Journal
TOPICS IN CATALYSIS
Volume 55, Issue 5-6, Pages 313-321Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s11244-012-9799-x
Keywords
Palladium; Zinc; Nickel; Density functional theory; Water gas shift; Heterogeneous catalysis
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- National Science Foundation (CBET) [0747646]
- NCSA [TG-CHE080020N]
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [0747646] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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PdZn catalysts have been proposed as an alternative to Cu low temperature water gas shift (WGS) catalysts due to their similar reactivity but higher thermal stability. Unfortunately, Pd based alloys are likely to be considerably more expensive than Cu catalysts. Therefore, we explore NiZn as a potentially cheaper alternative to PdZn. Both PdZn(111) and NiZn(111) have similar potential energy surfaces for WGS as previous work on Cu(111) suggesting that they may be effective WGS catalysts. However, unlike PdZn (and Cu), the primary mechanism for WGS shifts from the carboxyl mechanism to a redox mechanism over NiZn(111) (although they are similar in magnitude).
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