Journal
CATALYSIS TODAY
Volume 230, Issue -, Pages 20-26Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cattod.2013.10.002
Keywords
Carbon dioxide; Photocatalysis; Palladium; Sol gel; Titania; Zirconia
Funding
- EU project [CZ.1.05/2.1.00/03.0069, CZ.1.07/2.3.00/30.0016]
- Operational Programme Education for Competitiveness
- European Social Fund and the state budget of the Czech Republic
- European Regional Development Fund in the framework of the Polish Innovation Economy Operational Program [POIG.02.01.00-12-023/08]
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Pure and palladium-enriched TiO2 and TiO2-ZrO2 photocatalysts were prepared by the sol-gel process controlled within reverse micelles and impregnated under vacuum. The catalysts were characterized by ICP MS, nitrogen physisorption, X-ray diffraction, UV-vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and TEM/SEAD and investigated in the CO2 photocatalytic reduction in a batch annular photoreactor. Methane and hydrogen were the main reduction products in the gas phase. Low amounts of carbon monoxide were also detected. The observed order of product yields ( timolIg of a catalyst) was: H-2 > CH4 > CO. The catalyst performance (expressed as timol of products per grams of a photocatalyst) ranking was TiO2-ZrO2 > Pd/TiO2-ZrO2 > TiO2 > Pd/TiO2 > TiO2 Evonic P25. The detrimental effect of surface modification by Pd on the photocatalytic properties of both TiO2 and TiO2-ZrO2 photocatalysts can be explained by the presence of PdO clusters masking the supports surface and/or playing the role of the recombination centres. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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