STUDY ON TPR OF NICKEL OXIDE CATALYSTS CALCINED AT HIGH TEMPERATURES

TPR technique has been used, to investigate the reducibilities of three types of nickel oxide catalysts calcined in air between 650℃and 1050℃: NiO/Al2O3, NiO/MgAl2O4and NiO/(CaO, MgO) · A12O3· xSiO2. The results indicate that the TPR peaks of all the catalysts were shifted toward high temperature and peak areas were gradually reduced with increasing calcination temperature. Particularly, the main TPR peaks almost disappeared at 1050℃-It was also observed that NiO/(CaO, MgO)· Al2O3 · xSiO2 catalyst was the easiest to be reduced of these catalysts, and there was a small shoulder peak before the main peak for each catalyst. Examination of these catalysts by XPS showed that there were two forms of nickel oxides on support surface .

STUDY ON TPR OF NICKEL OXIDE CATALYSTS CALCINED AT HIGH TEMPERATURES