Journal
CATALYSTS
Volume 11, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/catal11101217
Keywords
Amorphous carbon; hydrogen-rich fuel; methane decomposition; carbon nanotubes
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- Instituto Politecnico Nacional in Mexico [SIP-20210451, SIP20210888]
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Using Ni/SBA-15 catalyst, hydrogen fuel and carbon nanotubes can be produced simultaneously via methane dehydrogenation, with high selectivity for hydrogen and mainly multiwall carbon nanotubes formed with different growth modes.
We report the simultaneous production of hydrogen fuel and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) via methane dehydrogenation catalyzed with Ni/SBA-15. Most Ni nanoparticles (NPs) with size between 10 and 30 nm were highly dispersed on SBA-15 and most of them had a strong interaction with the support. At temperatures ranging from 500 to 800 & DEG;C, methane could be decomposed to release hydrogen with 100% selectivity at conversion between 51 and 65%. There was no CO or CO2 detectable in the reaction fluent. In the initial stage of the reaction, amorphous carbon and dehydrogenated methane species adsorbed on the Ni NPs promoted the CH4 decomposition. The amorphous carbon atoms were then transformed into carbon nanotubes which chiefly consisted of a multiwall structure and grew towards different orientations via a tip-growth or a base-growth modes, controlled by the interaction strength between the Ni NPs and the SBA-15 support. Reaction temperature affected not only methane conversion, but also the diffusion of carbon atoms on/in the Ni NPs and their precipitation at the interfaces. At higher temperature, bamboo-like CNTs or onion-like metal-encapsulated carbons were formed, mainly due to the rate of carbon atom formation greater than that of carbon precipitation for CNTs construction. The CNTs formation mechanisms are discussed and their growth modes under different conditions are proposed.
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