Catalytic reaction mechanism of formaldehyde oxidation by oxygen species over Pt/TiO2 catalyst
Junyan Ding1, Yingju Yang1, Jing Liu1
1State Key Laboratory of Coal Combustion, School of Energy and Power Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, China.
Abstract:
Theoretical calculations based on density functional theory (DFT) were employed to uncover the molecular-level oxidation mechanism of HCHO over Pt/TiO2 surface. All the three possible reaction mechanisms including Eley-Rideal mechanism, Langmuir-Hinshelwood mechanism and Mars-Van Krevelen mechanism were deeply investigated to determine the primary channel of HCHO oxidation on Pt/TiO2 catalyst. The adsorption energies and geometries show that HCHO and O2 are chemically adsorbed on Pt and Ti sites of the Pt/TiO2 catalyst surface, respectively. The adsorption energy of O2 (-141.91 kJ/mol) is higher than that of HCHO (-122.03 kJ/mol). HCHO oxidation reaction mainly occurs through the Eley-Rideal mechanism: gaseous HCHO reacts with activated O produced from the dissociation reaction of molecular oxygen on Pt/TiO2 surface by comparing the three possible mechanisms. HCHO oxidation reaction prefers the pathway of HCHO → H2CO2 → HCO2 → CO2. In the whole HCHO oxidation reaction, the elementary reaction of HCO2 dehydrogenation presents the highest activation energy barrier of 230.45 kJ/mol. Therefore, HCO2 dehydrogenation is recognized as the rate-determining step. The proposed skeletal reaction scheme can be used to well understand the microcosmic reaction process of HCHO oxidation on Pt/TiO2 catalyst.
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