Novel VPO Catalysts for n-Butane Oxidation to Maleic Anhydride:The Effects of Combined Moderators,Preparation Procedure and MCM-41 Supports

VPO catalysts are widely used in selective oxidation of n-butane into maleic anhydride (MA)^[1-2]. In the recent years, there is an obvious trend worldwide that the selectivity of a target product is more emphasized than the overall conversion, to decrease the undesired by-products. In this study, different approaches have been tried to generate more environmentally friendly VPO catalysts, with high MA selectivity and improved n-butane conversion. The moderated catalyst was prepared in aqueous phase^[3]. For comparison, the moderators were also introduced by impregnating the VPO precursor synthesized in organic medium. The supported VPO systems on the MCM-41 mesopore materials were prepared by employing the reaction of V₂O₅ with isobutanol in the presence of MCM-41 fine powder with different Si/Al ratios. The catalysts were evaluated at 385-425℃ and characterized by XRD, XPS and TPR etc.     

MCM-41 Supported Rhenium Oxides:Characterization and Selective Methanol Oxidation

Re oxides have not widely been used as catalysts for selective oxidations owing to sublimation under pretreatment and reaction conditions^[1].Nevertheless, the property of Re species capable of adopting a variety of oxidation states that are illustrated in both binary and ternary oxides^[2,3],may provide rich and interesting chemistry. One of us reported a crystalline binary oxide compound SbRe₂O₆ for the selective methylal formation in the methanol oxidation^[4]. The selectivity reached 92.5% at a conversion of 6.5% at 573 K. The performance of SbRe₂O₆ was attributed to the Re-oxide octahedra connecting with Sb-O chains^[5]. However, the crystalline oxide SbRe₂O₆ has a very low surface area (1 m² g^-1),resulting in insufficient activity for the methylal production. Recently, we found the new catalytic property of supported Re oxides for the selective oxidation of methanol to methylal^[6]. Here, we report the characterization and catalytic property of MCM-41 supported Re oxides for the selective methanol oxidation.     

水热法制备Ni-Sm/SiC催化剂甲烷二氧化碳重整性能的研究

通过水热法制备了Ni-Sm/SiC催化剂（Ni的含量固定为9%，钐的含量固定为5%）。采用XRD、BET、ICP、H₂-TPR、TG-DTA和TEM等技术对催化剂进行表征。对催化剂在甲烷二氧化碳重整反应中的催化活性、不同镍前驱体的影响、催化剂的积炭行为进行了研究。研究结果表明，水热法制备的Ni-Sm/SiC催化剂有着优异的催化活性、稳定性和抗积炭能力。不同镍前驱体对催化剂的性能没有影响。     

Photopromoted Carbonylation of Olefins with Carbon Dioxide by Transition Metal Complexes Catalysis

The carbonylation of olefins is important and essential methods to synthesize organic compounds,Which requires high temperature (150-200℃) and high pressure (10~20MPa) in addition to precious metal complex catalysts (such as Ru,Rh, Ir)^[1], In recent years photopromoted organic syntheses have received more and more attentions that were called environmentally friendly technique because of their ambient reaction conditions,high reactivities and selectivities and a little pollution^[2]. Photopromoted carbonylation can be completed in ambient conditions and by non-precious complexes catalysts, and especially photopromoted methoxycarbonylation of olefins could give better results^[3,4]. In previous papers we have established that the methoxycarbonylation of olefins with carbon dioxide could be carried out in place of carbon monoxide.     

Ni_2P催化剂的低温还原法合成及其HDS性能

在低还原温度下程序升温还原法制备了Ni2P/MCM-41催化剂,并采用H2-TPR、TG-DTG、XRD、BET、XPS等手段对制备的催化剂进行了表征,考察了还原温度对活性相Ni2P形成以及催化剂二苯并噻吩HDS性能的影响。结果表明,在210~390℃下还原得到的催化剂活性相为单一的Ni2P相;在390℃下还原得到的催化剂具有最高的二苯并噻吩HDS活性,在反应温度340℃、反应压力3.0 MPa、氢/油体积比500、质量空速(WHSV)2.0 h-1的条件下二苯并噻吩HDS转化率达到99.0%。     

羟基磷灰石负载Ni催化剂中Ni含量对催化甲烷二氧化碳重整制合成气性能的影响

以低温沉淀方法制备的羟基磷灰石(HAp)为载体,采用浸渍法制备了一系列不同Ni含量的Ni/HAp催化剂,并采用BET、H2-TPR、XRD、SEM、FT-IR、TEM和TG-DTA技术对催化剂进行了表征。结果表明,NiO含量为13%的催化剂表现出最好的催化甲烷二氧化碳重整制合成气活性,在850℃、空速3.6×104mL/(h·gcat)的反应条件下,甲烷和二氧化碳的转化率在10 h内分别稳定在72%和83%。这主要归因于催化剂中金属和载体之间的强相互作用。虽然反应后的催化剂表面有少量的积炭,但这些积炭多以丝状炭存在,并不会影响催化剂的活性和稳定性。     

Ni-Fe/蒙脱土催化剂催化乙醇水蒸气重整制氢的研究

采用浸渍法制备了一系列Ni-Fe/蒙脱土(MMT)催化剂,并应用于乙醇水蒸气重整制氢反应(ESR)。采用X射线衍射(XRD)、N_2吸附脱附分析和H_2-程序升温还原(H_2-TPR)表征手段对催化剂的物理化学性质、还原性能、碳沉积等进行了研究。结果表明,Ni-Fe/MMT催化剂中,Ni、Fe高度分散在载体MMT层间及表面,而且Fe的加入降低了Ni颗粒的粒径,增强了Ni~(2+)与载体的相互作用力。以10Ni5Fe/MMT为催化剂,在反应温度为500℃、水醇比为3∶1、空速为12 h~(-1),反应进行30 h后,乙醇转化率为100%,氢气选择性仍保持72%,副产物CO和CH_4含量明显降低。这是因为催化助剂Fe的引入,一方面,提高了Ni的分散度,使得ESR低温活性较好;另一方面,减小了Ni颗粒粒径,小颗粒的Ni有利于抑制甲烷的生成,并且Fe的加入加强了甲烷重整和水煤气变换反应,提高产物中氢气的选择性。     

Synthesis and catalytic performance of bimetallic NiMo- and NiW-ZSM-5/MCM-41 composites for production of liquid biofuels

This work presents a synthesis of bimetallic NiMo and NiW modified ZSM-5/MCM-41 composites and their heterogeneous catalytic conversion of crude palm oil( CPO) to biofuels. The ZSM-5/MCM-41 composites were synthesized through a self-assembly of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide( CTAB) surfactant with silica-alumina from ZSM-5 zeolite,prepared from natural kaolin by the hydrothermal technique. Subsequently,the synthesized composites were deposited with bimetallic NiMo and NiW by impregnation method. The obtained catalysts presented a micro-mesoporous structure,confirmed by XRD,SEM,TEM,EDX,NH_3-TPD,XRF and N_2 adsorption-desorption measurements. The results of CPO conversion demonstrate that the catalytic activity of the synthesized catalysts decreases in the series of NiMo-ZSM-5/MCM-41 NiW-ZSM-5/MCM-41 Ni-ZSM-5/MCM-41 Mo-ZSM-5/MCM-41 W-ZSM-5/MCM-41 NiMo-ZSM-5 NiW-ZSM-5 ZSM-5/MCM-41 ZSM-5 MCM-41. It was found that the bimetallic NiMo-and NiW-ZSM-5/MCM-41 catalysts give higher yields of liquid hydrocarbons than other catalysts at a given conversion. Types of hydrocarbon in liquid products,identified by simulated distillation gas chromatography-flame ionization detector( SimDis GC-FID),are gasoline( 150-200 ℃; C5-12),kerosene( 250-300 ℃; C5-20) and diesel( 350 ℃; C7-20).Moreover,the conversion of CPO to biofuel products using the NiMo-and NiW-ZSM-5/MCM-41 catalysts offers no statistically significant difference( P 0.05) at 95% confidence level,evaluated by SPSS analysis.     

Deoxydesulfurization of dibenzothiophene sulfone over cesium/MCM-41 catalysts

Dibenzothiophene sulfone, one of the products of the oxidative desulfurization of heavy oil, can be utilized through catalytic cracking. The object of the present study is to provide Cs/MCM-41 catalysts for the removal of sulfur dioxide from dibenzothiophene sulfone. Cesium oxide was deposited via an impregnation method on MCM-41, and the catalytic performances of the samples were investigated during the deoxydesulfurization of dibenzothiophene sulfone to biphenyl and sulfur dioxide gas. The influence of cesium loading on the basic properties of MCM-41 was estimated by the temperature-programmed desorption of carbon dioxide. The dibenzothiophene sulfone conversions of the MCM-41, Cs(1 wt%)/MCM-41, Cs(3 wt%)/MCM-41 and Cs(10 wt%)/MCM-41 catalysts were 38.5, 52.1, 72.4 and 40.9%, respectively, which implies that the Cs(3 wt%)/MCM-41 catalyst has the highest activity. This result agrees with the finding of the basicity enhancement of MCM-41 with the addition of cesium, in which Cs(3 wt%)/MCM-41 exhibited a maximum number of basic sites.     

Biogas as a fuel for solid oxide fuel cells and synthesis gas production: effects of ceria-doping and hydrogen sulfide on the performance of nickel-based anode materials

Numerous investigations have been carried out into the conversion of biogas into synthesis gas (a mixture of H(2) + CO) over Ni/YSZ anode cermet catalysts. Biogas is a variable mixture of gases consisting predominantly of methane and carbon dioxide (usually in a 2 : 1 ratio, but variable with source), with other constituents including sulfur-containing gases such as hydrogen sulfide, which can cause sulfur poisoning of nickel catalysts. The effect of temperature on carbon deposition and sulfur poisoning of 90 : 10 mol% Ni/YSZ under biogas conversion conditions has been investigated by carrying out a series of catalytic reactions of methane-rich (2 : 1) CH(4)/CO(2) mixtures in the absence and presence of H(2)S over the temperature range 750-1000 °C. The effect of ceria-doping on carbon dioxide reforming, carbon deposition and sulfur tolerance has also been investigated by carrying out a similar series of reactions over ceria-doped Ni/YSZ. Ceria was doped at 5 mol% of the nickel content to give an anode catalyst composition of 85.5 : 4.5 : 10 mol% Ni/CeO(2)/YSZ. Reactions were followed using quadrupolar mass spectrometry (QMS) and the amount of carbon deposition was analysed by subjecting the reacted catalyst samples to a post-reaction temperature programmed oxidation (TPO). On undoped Ni/YSZ, carbon deposition occurred predominantly through thermal decomposition of methane. Ceria-doping significantly suppressed methane decomposition and at high temperatures simultaneously promoted the reverse Boudouard reaction, significantly lowering carbon deposition. Sulfur poisoning of Ni/YSZ occurred in two phases, the first of which caused the most activity loss and was accelerated on increasing the reaction temperature, while the second phase had greater stability and became more favourable with increasing reaction temperature. Adding H(2)S significantly inhibited methane decomposition, resulting in much less carbon deposition. Ceria-doping significantly increased the sulfur tolerance of Ni/YSZ, however, in the presence of H(2)S ceria did not promote the reverse Boudouard reaction and at high temperatures carbon deposition was greater over ceria-doped Ni/YSZ. In order to further study the effects of ceria-doping, a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) was constructed with a ceria-doped anode cermet and its electrical performance on simulated biogas compared to hydrogen was tested. This fuel cell was subsequently ran for 1000 h on simulated biogas with no degradation in its overall electrical performance.     

Hydrogen generation from methanol reforming under unprecedented mild conditions

A homogeneous catalyst [Cp^*Rh(NH₃)(H₂O)₂]³⁺ has been found for the clean conversion of methanol and water to hydrogen and carbon dioxide.The simple and easily available reaction steps can circumvent the formation of CO,therefore,making it possible to avoid inactivating catalysts and contaminating the hydrogen fuel.Different from conventional reforming method for hydrogen production,no additional alkaline or organic substances are required in this method.Valuable hydrogen can be obtained under ambient pressure at 70℃,corresponding TOF is 83.2 h^-1.This is an unprecedented success in reforming methanol to hydrogen.Effects of reaction conditions,such as reaction temperature,initial methanol concentration and the initial pH value of buffer solution on the hydrogen evolution are all systematically investigated.In a certain range,higher reaction temperature will accelerate reaction rate.The slightly acidic condition is conducive to rapid hydrogen production.These findings are of great significance to the present establishment of the carbon-neutral methanol economy.     

氮化SBA-16负载镍基催化剂的制备及其对甲烷二氧化碳重整反应的催化性能

通过软模板法合成了SBA-16分子筛,采用高温氨气氮化的方法使有序介孔硅材料中的氧原子部分被氮原子取代,得到氮化的SBA-16载体(SBA-16-N)。采用满孔浸渍法制备了镍基催化剂,并将制得的Ni/SBA-16和Ni/SBA-16-N催化剂用于甲烷二氧化碳重整反应。通过透射电镜、氮气物理吸附、X射线衍射、X射线光电子能谱和二氧化碳程序升温脱附等手段研究了载体和催化剂的结构,并利用热重分析对反应之后回收催化剂进行了表征。结果表明,高温氮化后的分子筛中掺入了氮元素,增加了载体的碱性,改善了载体对反应气体的吸附活化能力,增强了载体与金属之间的相互作用,从而提高了催化剂的活性和抗积炭性能。     

Preparation of hydrogen for feeding fuel cells by low-temperature conversion of ethanol on Ni/ZnO and Ni-Cu/ZnO catalysts

Preparation of hydrogen by low-temperature steam conversion of ethanol on nickel and binary nickel-copper catalysts supported on zinc oxide was studied experimentally in the temperature interval 200–450°C. High efficiency of hydrogen evolution in the course of ethanol conversion on these catalysts was demonstrated. At temperatures lower than 350°C, the main conversion products are hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide. At 400°C, the conversion products contain no carbon monoxide, which allows the mixture obtained to be used for feeding fuel cells with proton-conducting membranes.     

Mo_2N/Zr-MCM-41新型催化剂的制备、表征及其麻疯树油加氢脱氧的催化性能

采用水热法合成载体MCM-41与不同初始n(Si)/n(Zr)的Zr-MCM-41,由(NH_4)_6Mo_7O_(24)与载体经过共浸渍、高温焙烧、氨气程序升温氮化制备了Mo_2N/Zr-MCM-41新型加氢脱氧催化剂。采用XRD、BET、XPS、TEM以及吡啶红外等手段对催化剂进行了表征,并采用高压反应釜评价了不同n(Si)/n(Zr)的Mo_2N/Zr-MCM-41催化麻疯树油加氢脱氧反应的性能。结果表明,Zr改性后的载体与纯硅MCM-41同样具有良好的孔道结构,且L酸、B酸酸值提高。Mo_2N作为活性组分体现出了优异的加氢脱氧性能,在反应温度350℃、氢气分压3.0 MPa条件下催化的产品油组成主要为直链烷烃与芳香族化合物,占产品组分的90%(质量分数)以上;不同n(Si)/n(Zr)的新型催化剂脱氧率可高达100%;芳香族化合物含量高于直链烷烃,最高可占组成的72.09%(质量分数),主要以单环、双环芳香烃为主,碳链长度分布在C_(8-16);直链烷烃碳链长度分布在C_(8-17)。通过Mo_2N/Zr-MCM-41催化后的麻疯树油经分馏处理后可制备生物燃料。     

无溶剂高度分散Ni/MCM-41催化剂的制备及其萘加氢性能

分别用机械研磨无溶剂法、添加柠檬酸无溶剂法制备了Ni/MCM-41催化剂,对所制催化剂进行了分析表征,探究其萘加氢反应性能并与常规浸渍法进行了对比。与常规浸渍法相比,机械研磨无溶剂法所制催化剂的物理性质相近,金属镍分散度和萘加氢性能略有提高;添加柠檬酸无溶剂法则显著提升了催化剂的分散度和萘加氢性能,金属镍分散度由6.9%大幅提高至67.9%,萘加氢性能提高了近1倍。通过红外光谱、紫外光谱和热重分析,提出了添加柠檬酸对无溶剂法制备催化剂性能的促进作用机制。     

制备方法对 Ni-Al2O3催化剂在 CO2-CH4重整反应中 催化性能的影响

为提高镍基催化剂的干法重整活性,采用溶液燃烧法、等体积浸渍法、胶体磨循环浸渍法和水热-沉积法制备了SCM、IMP、T310和HTP四种催化剂,在800 ℃考察了其在CO₂-CH₄重整反应中的催化性能,并结合ICP-AES、N₂吸附-脱附、XRD、H₂-TPR和TEM等表征手段对催化剂进行分析。结果表明,水热-沉积法和胶体磨循环浸渍法制备的催化剂比表面积较大,分别为190.83和182.21 m²/g,可为反应提供较多的接触面积,进而提高催化剂的初始活性(HTP试样CH₄和CO₂初始转化率相对较高,分别达85.15%和90.84%);而溶液燃烧法和等体积浸渍法制备的催化剂具有较多的NiAl₂O₄尖晶石,其还原峰面积占总还原峰面积90%以上,还原后可获得更多晶粒粒径更小的稳定活性组分Ni(SCM和IMP试样稳定性更好,反应50 h后活性超过HTP和T310试样,100 h后CH₄转化率方降至50%以下)。因此,决定催化剂稳定活性的更重要的因素应该是活性组分Ni晶粒粒径的大小及其抗烧结能力的强弱。     

Methane Clear Combustion at High Temperature over NiO/ZrO2 Series Catalysts

Natural gas would play a predominant role in the energy structure in this new century. However, only at high temperature natural gas could combust with high efficiency, resulting in some pollution gases such as NO_x and CO produced if air was employed as oxygen resource. Catalytic combustion was considered as a prospective route to solve this problem. Noble metals shown good performance but with limited resources^[1], so that many attentions were focused on the development of non-noble metals materials with good high temperature properties, among which ZrO₂ supported series might be the first choice^[2]. Therefore, methane (over 95% of natural gas) combustion performance on this types of catalysts should be investigated in detail.     

The Preparation of Ionic Liquid Catalysts and Their Catalytic Performance

Ionic liquid, a new type catalyst, was developed in recent years, on which some good catalytic performance appeared in some reactions such as olefins' oligomerization, hydrogenation and Freidel-Crafts reaction just for their strong electrophilic catalysis^[1]. However, it was reported that only in vacuum and seal condition ionic liquid could be prepared with the halogerated hydrocarbon and heterocyclic compounds or their homologues^[2]. So it was necessary to develop a new method to synthesize ionic liquid. Therefore, inert gases (such as N₂) protection instead of vacuum was employed in this experimental, and the rules of preparation parameters on the products' type and yield were investigated, based on which the catalytic performance of these ionic liquid was studied in a model reaction of new compound synthesis from methane and carbon dioxide.     

Effects of Preparation Methods and Interaction between Support and Oxide for Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Ethane over NiO/ZrO2

The previous studies indicated that the unsupported and alumina supported nickel oxide catalysts are the attractive candidates for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane (ODE) reaction at lower reaction temperature^[1,2]. In the present study, NiO/ZrO₂ catalysts were prepared by the impregnation, complex of ammonia and coprecipitation, respectively, using the conventional incipient wetness technique. Over all samples used in this study, no NiO crystal structure was detected by XRD measurements carried out in parallel with the present work, which indicated the nickel oxide was highly dispersed on the support The blank testing indicated that the support ZrO₂ had very little activity below 600℃. Comparing with the unsupported nickel oxide, it was found that the activity of NiO/ZrO₂ catalysts prepared by the methods mentioned above decreased slightly and the selectivity for ethylene improved. With the increasing temperature, the ethane conversion increased and the selectivity for ethylene decreased However, the cracking of the ethane occurred at ca.450℃ on all samples prepared by different methods. The optimum catalytic behavior could be obtained on 5wt%NiO/ZrO₂ prepared by coprecipitation, with the ethane conversion of 26.2% and selectivity for ethylene of 51.8% at as low temperature as 350℃. The sample prepared by coprecipitation and calcined at 500℃ was calcined again at 600℃ for 5 h,the activity decreased obviously, which may be attributed to the existence of the interaction between nickel oxide and support taking into account for the high dispersion of NiO on ZiO₂.     

负载型磷化镍催化剂的溶剂热法制备及其加氢脱硫性能

以廉价的三苯基膦(PPh₃)为磷源,以三正辛胺(TOA)为液相反应体系,溶剂热法制备了负载型Ni₂P/MCM-41催化剂,并采用XRD、BET、CO吸附、XPS和TEM等手段对制备得到的催化剂进行了表征。该方法的合成温度为330 ℃,反应在常压下进行,比程序升温还原法(H₂-TPR)所需的还原温度至少低300 ℃,比传统的溶剂热法合成原料更廉价。以二苯并噻吩(DBT)为模型化合物,比较了所制备的Ni₂P/MCM-41催化剂与H₂-TPR法制备的催化剂结构以及加氢脱硫(HDS)性能。结果表明,溶剂热法能够降低催化剂表面上P物种的集聚,从而得到较大比表面积的Ni₂P催化剂(690 m²/g);促进小尺寸、高度分散的Ni₂P活性相的生成;制得的催化剂的HDS活性明显高于H₂-TPR法催化剂,在反应温度340 ℃,质量空速2.0 h^-1,H₂/油=500(体积比),3.0 MPa的条件下,Ni₂P/M41-R催化剂DBT转化率达到96.8%,较H₂-TPR法高10.6%。