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PROCESSES
Volume 8, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/pr8070774
Keywords
methane activation; plasma catalysis; C-2 hydrocarbons; dielectric barrier discharge; hydrogenation
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Methane is activated at ambient conditions in a dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma reactor packed with Pd/gamma-alumina catalyst containing different loadings of Pd (0.5, 1, 5 wt%). Results indicate that the presence of Pd on gamma-alumina substantially abates the formation of deposits, leads to a notable increase in the production of alkanes and olefins and additionally improves the energy efficiency compared to those obtained for the non-packed reactor and the bare gamma-alumina packed reactor. A low amount of Pd (0.5 and 1 wt%) favors achieving a higher production of olefins (mainly C2H4 and C3H6) and a higher yield of H-2. Increasing Pd loading to 5 wt% promotes the interaction of H-2 and olefins, which consequently intensifies the successive hydrogenation of unsaturated compounds, thus incurring a higher production of alkanes (mainly C2H6 and C3H8). The substantial abatement of the deposits is ascribed to the role of Palladium in moderating the strength of the electric and shifting the reaction pathways, in the way that hydrogenation reactions of deposits' precursors become faster than their deposition on the catalyst.
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