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JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION
Volume 183, Issue -, Pages 415-423Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2018.02.088
Keywords
Methanol decomposition; Hydrogen production; Cu-Al spinel; Cu sintering; CuAl2O4; Heterogeneous catalysis
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21706277]
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The development of inexpensive and effective catalysts that can produce hydrogen from methanol is attractive for the implementation of clean energy technologies. Cu-Al oxides, prepared by different methods, were tested for hydrogen production from methanol decomposition. Catalysts with spine! CuAl2O4 (copper aluminate) structure as compared with non-spinel Cu-Al oxides, are more stable, and exhibit higher catalytic activity despite of their low surface area. Spinel CuAl2O4 synthesized by citrate process show better performance towards methanol decomposition than that obtained by co-precipitation process. The selectivity to H-2+CO can be improved by the impregnation of potassium in spinel CuAl2O4. However, the direct addition of potassium during the citrate process strongly inhibited the formation of CuAl2O4 structure, thus leading to a low catalytic activity. CuAl2O4 was found to be a reservoir of Cu, slowly releasing Cu during the catalysis of methanol decomposition and preventing Cu from quick sintering. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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