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Pilar Tarifa1, Cristina Megías-Sayago1, Fernando Cazaña1
1Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Instituto de Nanociencia y Materiales de Aragón (INMA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)-University of Zaragoza, E-50018 Zaragoza, Spain.
Abstract:
The CO2 methanation performance of Mg- and/or Ce-promoted Ni catalysts supported on cellulose-derived carbon (CDC) was investigated. The samples, prepared by biomorphic mineralization techniques, exhibit pore distributions correlated to the particle sizes, revealing a direct effect of the metal content in the textural properties of the samples. The catalytic performance, evaluated as CO2 conversion and CH4 selectivity, reveals that Ce is a better promoter than Mg, reaching higher conversion values in all of the studied temperature range (150-500 °C). In the interval of 350-400 °C, Ni-Mg-Ce/CDC attains the maximum yield to methane, 80%, reaching near 100% CH4 selectivity. Ce-promoted catalysts were highly active at low temperatures (175 °C), achieving 54% CO2 conversion with near 100% CH4 selectivity. Furthermore, the large potential stability of the Ni-Mg-Ce/CDC catalyst during consecutive cycles of reaction opens a promising route for the optimization of the Sabatier process using this type of catalyst.
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