Journal
APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 428, Issue -, Pages 703-709Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2017.09.168
Keywords
1,2-Dichloroethane; Catalytic hydrodechlorination; Pd decoration; Ethylene selectivity; Galvanic replacement
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- National Key Basic Research Program of China [2014CB441103]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21577056]
- National Key Research and Development Program of China [2016YFC0204301]
- Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu province [BK20151381]
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Ag catalysts decorated by trace Pd supported on gamma-Al2O3 with different structure and chemical properties were prepared using a combined impregnation and galvanic replacement method. For comparison, monometallic Ag/gamma-Al2O3 and Pd/gamma-Al2O3 catalysts were prepared using the impregnation method. Gas-phase catalytic hydrodechlorination of 1,2-dichloroethane to ethylene was investigated on those catalysts. The structures and chemical compositions of bimetallic Pd-Ag particles in the catalysts were controlled by adjusting Pd replacement amount. The as-prepared catalysts were characterized by X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and in-situ FTIR spectroscopy of CO adsorption. The results demonstrated that contiguous Pd sites dominated in the monometallic Pd/gamma-Al2O3 catalyst, while Pd atoms were separately decorated on the surface of Ag particles in the bimetallic Pd/gamma-Al2O3 catalysts when Pd replacement amount was below 0.30 wt.%. At Pd replacement amount of 0.30 wt.%, Pd ensembles with contiguous Pd sites developed in the bimetallic catalyst. Thus, monometallic Pd/gamma-Al2O3 catalyst displayed negligible ethylene selectivity toward the catalytic hydrodechlorination of 1,2-dichloroethane, while bimetallic Pd/gamma-Al2O3 catalyst with a Pd replacement amount of 0.13 wt.% exhibited 94.6% of ethylene selectivity. Furthermore, selectivity to incompletely dechlorinated byproduct chloroethylene decreased with Pd replacement amount, due to the enhanced decoration effect of Pd on large Ag ensembles. Findings in this work provide a promising bimetallic catalyst prepared by galvanic replacement for the selective catalytic hydrodechlorination of 1,2-dichloroethane. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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