Journal
CATALYSTS
Volume 10, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/catal10091028
Keywords
preformed Au nanoparticles; dendrons; dendrimers; thiols; CO oxidation; PROX; CO-PrOx; microreactor; fuel reformer; stability test
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- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [MICINN/FEDER RTI2018-093996-B-C31]
- Generalitat de Catalunya (GC) [2017 SGR 128]
- postdoctoral fellowships programme Beatriu de Pinos by Governement of Catalonia [2018 BP 00146]
- Horizon 2020 programme of research and innovation of the European Union under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant [801370]
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CO preferential oxidation (PROX) is an effective method to clean reformate H-2 streams to feed low-temperature fuel cells. In this work, the PROX and CO oxidation reactions were studied on preformed Au nanoparticles (NPs) supported on TiO2 anatase. Preformed Au NPs were obtained from gold cores stabilized by dodecanethiols or trimethylsilane-dendrons. A well-controlled size of ca. 2.6 nm and narrow size distributions were achieved by this procedure. The catalysts were characterized by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and ex situ and in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). The XPS results showed that the preformed Au NPs exhibited high thermal stability. The different ligand-derived Au catalysts, as well as a conventional gold catalyst for comparison purposes, were loaded onto cordierite supports with 400 cells per square inch. The activity and selectivity of the samples were evaluated for various operation conditions. The catalyst prepared using dodecanethiol-capped Au NPs showed the best performance. In fact, CO conversions of up to 70% at 40% CO2 selectivity and 90% O-2 conversion were observed operating at 363 K in H-2-rich atmospheres. The performance of the best catalysts was subsequently tested on stainless steel microreactors. A 500-hour stability test was carried out under a real post-reformate stream, including 18 vol.% CO2 and 29 vol.% H2O. A mean CO conversion of ca. 24% was measured for the whole test operating at 453 K and a gas hourly space velocity (GHSV) of 1.3 x 10(4) h(-1). These results reveal our dodecanethiol- and carbosilane-derived Au catalysts as extremely promising candidates to conduct a PROX reaction while avoiding deactivation, which is one of the major drawbacks of Au/TiO2 catalysts.
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