In:
Journal of Materials Research, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, Vol. 33, No. 11 ( 2018-06-13), p. 1625-1631
Abstract:
In this work, activated carbon was modified by ammonium persulfate and used as the catalyst support for CO 2 hydrogenation to methanol. Then CuO and/or ZnO were loaded on the support by a facile wet-impregnation method. The obtained CuZn/C, Cu/C, and Zn/C catalysts were characterized by a series of characterization techniques including N 2 physisorption, X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron (XPS), and scanning and transmission electron microscopies (SEM and TEM). XRD and XPS results showed that ZnO affected the reduction of Cu 2+ . The TEM results showed that Cu particles were 14–18 nm for the fresh catalysts CuZn/C and Cu/C. ZnO particles were too small to be identified by TEM. The used catalysts CuZn/C and Cu/C had particle sizes of 10–25 nm and 50–60 nm, respectively. The enhanced methanol synthesis performance by ZnO could be ascribed to the morphology effect and slowing down the Cu particles sintering during the reactions.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0884-2914
,
2044-5326
DOI:
10.1557/jmr.2018.140
Language:
English
Publisher:
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Publication Date:
2018
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54876-5
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2015297-8
