Citation: ZHANG Yan-jie, CHEN Chong-qi, ZHAN Ying-ying, YE Yuan-song, LOU Ben-yong, ZHENG Guo-cai, LIN Qi. CuO/ZrO₂ catalysts for the production of H₂ through the water-gas shift reaction: Effect of calcination temperature of ZrO₂[J]. Journal of Fuel Chemistry and Technology, ;2019, 47(4): 464-473. shu

CuO/ZrO₂ catalysts for the production of H₂ through the water-gas shift reaction: Effect of calcination temperature of ZrO₂

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Ocean College, Minjiang University, Fuzhou 350108, China
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National Engineering Research Center of Chemical Fertilizer Catalyst, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, China

Corresponding author: ZHANG Yan-jie, yanjiezhang@mju.edu.cn LIN Qi, qlin1990@163.com
Received Date: 17 December 2018
Revised Date: 27 December 2018

Fund Project: Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province 2017J01584Project for Outstanding Young Talents of Fujian Provincial Universities 2016Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province 2017J05025JK Project of the Education Department of Fujian Province JK2015038the National Natural Science Foundation of China 21503105Scientific Research Foundation from Minjiang University MJY17003The project was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21503105), Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province (2017J05025, 2017J01584), Project for Outstanding Young Talents of Fujian Provincial Universities (2016), JK Project of the Education Department of Fujian Province (JK2015038) and Scientific Research Foundation from Minjiang University (MJY17003)

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A series of CuO/ZrO₂ catalysts were prepared by a deposition-precipitation method using ZrO₂ calcined at various temperatures (120, 250, 350 and 450℃) as supports. The water-gas shift (WGS) reaction was carried out on these catalysts using H₂ rich reactant gas (15% CO, 55% H₂, 23% N₂, 7% CO₂). It was shown that the catalytic activity of the catalysts increased at first and then decreased with increasing calcination temperature of ZrO₂. The catalyst supported on ZrO₂ calcined at 250℃ showed the highest catalytic activity. The structure and reducibility of CuO/ZrO₂ catalysts were studied by various techniques, such as XRD, N₂-physisorption, N₂O titration, H₂-TPR and CO-TPR-MS. The results show that the Cu dispersion and the proportion of catalytically active Cu-[O]-Zr species ("[]" represents an oxygen vacancy on ZrO₂ support) decrease with the increase of ZrO₂ calcination temperature. The calcination of ZrO₂ at higher temperature leads to an improvement of the reducibility of Cu-[O]-Zr species and hydroxyl groups on the CuO/ZrO₂ catalysts, resulting in an easier onset of the surface WGS reaction between surface hydroxyl groups and CO reductant. The two factors reach a balance for the catalyst supported on ZrO₂ calcined at 250℃ (moderate temperature), as is thought to be responsible for the highest WGS activity of this catalyst.
- CuO/ZrO₂ catalyst,
- water-gas shift reaction,
- calcination temperature of ZrO₂,
- CO-TPR,
- surface hydroxyl groups
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