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JOURNAL OF SUPERCRITICAL FLUIDS
Volume 154, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.supflu.2019.104610
Keywords
SCWG; Biomass; Hydrogen; Doped catalyst; Rietveld refinement
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- Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) of Malaysia [600-RMI/FRGS5/3(13/2013)]
- Universiti Putra Malaysia [GPB/2019/9674500]
- MOHE
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In this work, nanosized MgO doped Zn catalysts (Mg1-xZnxO; x = 0.05, 0.10, 0.15, 0.20) were catalyzed the supercritical water gasification (SCWG) of oil palm frond (OPF) biomass for hydrogen production. Increased the amount of Zn in the catalyst enlarged the crystallite size, thus, reduced the surface area. Interestingly, all the synthesized catalysts have crystallite sizes of less than 50 nm. In-depth Rietveld refinement analysis revealed that the enlargement of the crystallite size is due to the phenomenon of cell expansion when the smaller Mg2+ ions being replaced by the larger Zn2+ ions during the doping process. Increased the Zn content also improved the basicity properties. Among the synthesized catalysts, the Mg0.80Zn0.20O exhibited the highest total gas volume of 213.5 ml g(-1) of the biomass with 438.1% of increment in terms of H-2 yield. The metal oxide doped materials serve as a new catalyst structure system for the SCWG technology. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V.
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