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Synthesis and Testing of Supported Pt-Cu Solid Solution Nanoparticle Catalysts for Propane Dehydrogenation
Published on: July 18, 2017
Flame-made Cu/ZrO2 catalysts with metastable phase and strengthened interactions for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol
Meng Yang1, Jiafeng Yu2, Xin Tong1
1Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, Liaoning, China. yujf@dicp.ac.cn sunj@dicp.ac.cn and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China.
Abstract:
Facile synthesis of a highly efficient Cu/ZrO2 catalyst by a flame spray pyrolysis (FSP) method was developed for methanol production from CO2 hydrogenation. The instantaneous quenching process from extremely high temperature in FSP was used for rational design of a Cu/ZrO2 catalyst, not only producing the metastable tetragonal phase ZrO2, but also strengthening the metal-support interaction. The methanol yield of one-step synthesized FSP-Cu/ZrO2 was 3 times higher than the one made by the traditional method. This strategy is anticipated to pave the way for strengthening metal-support interactions of supported catalysts.
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