Journal
ACS CATALYSIS
Volume 8, Issue 7, Pages 5721-5731Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acscatal.8b01021
Keywords
Methane to methanol; silica; copper; activation temperature; XRD; XAS
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- Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK) [2219]
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Cu supported on SiO2 can be used to directly convert methane to methanol in a stepwise process with no intrinsic need for a zeolite support. Effects of parameters such as the O-2 activation temperature, activation time, CH4 reaction temperature, CH4 partial pressure (pCH(4)), and Cu wt % on methanol yield were investigated. Increasing the O-2 activation temperature in the 200-800 degrees C range significantly improved the methanol yield, and when carried out at 800 degrees C, a methanol yield of 11.5 mu mol/g(ctalyst) was obtained after reaction with methane at 200 degrees C for the sample with 2 wt % Cu. Yield per mole of Cu increased exponentially from 1.0 to 59.1 mmol with decreased Cu wt % from 30 to 1, respectively. The increase in the O-2 activation time also strongly influenced the yield which corresponded to the increase in yield by a factor of >2 between 1 and 8 h. Increasing PCH4 from 0.05 to 1 atm resulted in a 5-fold increase in yield after activation at 450 degrees C; however, it resulted in at least 20% lower yields after activation at 800 degrees C showing that active sites of different nature were formed at different activation temperatures. The increase in yield with ramped O-2 activation temperature correlated with the dehydration of the samples as evidenced by X-ray absorption near-edge spectroscopy (XANES) and via mass spectroscopy (MS) traces of H2O during the O-2 activation step.
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