Size structure-catalytic performance correlation of supported Ni/MCF-17 catalysts for COx-free hydrogen production
Yanping Li1, Jie Wen, Arshid M Ali
1The Center of New Energy Materials and Technology, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Southwest Petroleum University, Chengdu 610500, China. huizhang@swpu.edu.cn.
Abstract:
Herein, supported Ni/MCF-17 catalysts with the size of nickel nanocrystal in the range of 1.5-8.0 nm were synthesized and employed for COx-free hydrogen production for fuel cells via the ammonia decomposition reaction. Characterized by a variety of techniques, the results show that nickel particles are in a highly dispersed state with a uniform particle size for each catalyst. Furthermore, the influence of particle size on the catalytic performance has been investigated. It was later revealed that Ni nanoparticles with different particle sizes exhibited significant differences in catalyzing the COx-free hydrogen production reaction. Moreover, the catalyst with the Ni nanoparticle size around 3.0 nm exhibited highest catalytic activity at each reaction temperature; this could be explained by the presence of high B5 active sites on the Ni-based catalyst surface.
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