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JOURNAL OF NATURAL GAS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
Volume 46, Issue -, Pages 699-709Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jngse.2017.08.027
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CH4/CO2 reforming; Hydrogen; Ni/Al2O3-Clinoptilolite-CeO2; Support composition
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- Sahand University of Technology
- Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council
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The effect of Al2O3-Clinoptilolite-CeO2 support with different Al2O3 and clinoptilolite contents used in Nibased Nano catalysts are studied for enhancing catalyst production costs by replacing Al2O3 with clinoptilolite. The nanocatalysts are characterized by XRD, BET, FESEM, FTIR and EDX techniques and tested for dry reforming of methane. With addition of alumina the specific surface area, NiO dispersion, surface morphology and catalytic activity of the samples are improved. However, the addition of clinoptilolite reduces specific surface area, increases crystallite size, and improves the crystallinity. CeO2 as a support promoter has positive impact on surface morphology and improves NiO particles size and activity. The Ni/Al2O3-CeO2 nanocatalyst has the best activity, highest specific surface area, proper NiO species dispersion and flat surface morphology. However, the results of Ni/Al2O3(60%)-Clinoptilolite(30%)Ce02(10%) nanocatalyst in terms of catalytic performance and characterizations are so close to the results of the outstanding nanocatalyst (Ni/Al2O3-CeO2). Assessing similar feed conversions at high temperatures over both mentioned nanocatalysts are one of the important outcomes of this research. However, the most important result of this study is the reduction of 30 wt % of alumina consumption with achieving same results to the Ni/Al2O3-CeO2 nanocatalyst. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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