超高稳定性的等级孔碳负载高分散铜基选择性加氢催化剂

负载型Pd,Pt,Au等贵金属催化剂由于具有较高活性而被广泛应用于选择性加氢催化领域,但资源稀缺、价格昂贵等问题严重制约了其在催化领域的长远发展.目前大量研究结果表明,非贵金属催化剂也具有较高的选择性催化加氢能力,在已被报道的非贵金属加氢催化剂中,铜基催化剂由于在选择性加氢反应中表现出较高加氢选择性和活性引起了人们的广泛关注.然而,早期研究的负载型铜基催化剂普遍存在催化稳定性较低的问题,所以提高铜基催化剂的使用寿命成为了问题关键.本文以铜基有机金属框架HKUST-1作为合成目标催化剂的前驱体,首先探究了水热合成条件对HKUST-1合成结构完整性及结晶度的影响,再通过精确调控HKUST-1的原位碳化过程,利用金属有机框架高温分解自还原行为,成功制备出了等级孔碳负载的高分散铜基催化剂,并将所制备的催化剂应用于1,3-丁二烯选择性加氢反应中.扫描电子显微镜、高分辨透射电子显微镜、X射线衍射、氮气吸脱附、傅里叶红外吸收光谱、X射线光电子能谱等技术用来表征了碳化前后催化剂载体结构的变化,铜粒子尺寸、价态及其在载体中分布的变化.文中也深入探究了以上因素对催化剂选择性催化加氢性能的影响.研究表明:120℃水热合成18 h能获得尺寸在15μm左右,结晶度高且形貌规整的HKUST-1前驱体.随后通过合理地控制金属有机框架分解过程,可实现对碳载体的等级孔结构和活性铜纳米粒子的分散程度的精确调控,获得高效等级孔载体结构和高分散铜位点的催化剂.不仅如此,通过一步碳化自还原HKUST-1制备的等级孔碳负载Cu的催化性能表现出对碳化温度高度的关联性.其催化活性随碳化处理温度的升高呈现先增强后减弱的趋势,但所有获得的催化剂对单烯烃都具有很高的选择性(>98%).特别地,本文发现在600℃碳化合成的催化剂在低温75℃反应可实现对1,3-丁二烯的100%转化,对丁烯的选择性为100%.同时,该催化剂在恒温75℃下持续反应120 h以上,其对丁二烯转化率和对丁烯选择性依然保持100%,表现出了超高的催化稳定性和潜在的商用价值.本文展示了通过简单地调控金属有机骨架的碳化过程是获得具有优异选择性催化加氢性能的铜基催化剂的有效途径.

Enhanced stability of highly-dispersed copper catalyst supported by hierarchically porous carbon for long term selective hydrogenation

Copper based catalysts have high potential for the substituent of noble-metal based catalysts as their high selectivity and moderate activity for selective hydrogenation reaction;however,achieving further high catalytic stability is very difficult.In this work,the carbonization process of Cu-based organic frameworks was explored for the synthesis of highly-dispersed Cu supported by hierarchically porous carbon with high catalytic performance for selective hydrogenation of 1,3-butadiene.The porous hierarchy of carbon support and the dispersion of copper nanoparticles can be precisely tuned by controlling the carbonization process.The resultant catalyst carbonized at 600°C exhibits a rather low reaction temperature at 75°C for 100%butadiene conversion with 100%selectivity to butenes,due to its reasonable porous hierarchy and highly-dispersed copper sites.More importantly,unprecedentedly stability of the corresponding Cu catalyst was firstly observed for selective 1,3-butadiene hydrogenation,with both 100%butadiene conversion and 100%butenes selectivity over 120 h of reaction at 75°C.This study verifies that a simply control the carbonization process of metal organic frameworks can be an effective way to obtain Cu-based catalysts with superior catalytic performance for selective hydrogenation reaction.