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Published on: November 10, 2016
Selective formation of acetate intermediate prolongs robust ethylene removal at 0 °C for 15 days
Mingyue Lin1,2,3, Haifeng Wang4, Takashi Takei4
1Shanghai Environmental Protection Key Laboratory on Environmental Standard and Risk Management of Chemical Pollutants, State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Environmental Risk Assessment and Control on Chemical Process, School of Resources and Environmental Engineering, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, 200237, PR China.
Abstract:
Efficient ethylene (C2H4) removal below room temperatures, especially near 0 °C, is of great importance to suppress that the vegetables and fruits spoil during cold-chain transportation and storage. However, no catalysts have been developed to fulfill the longer-than-2-h C2H4 removal at this low temperature effectively. Here we prepare gold-platinum (Au-Pt) nanoalloy catalysts that show robust C2H4 (of 50 ppm) removal capacity at 0 °C for 15 days (360 h). We find, by virtue of operando Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy and online temperature-programmed desorption equipped mass spectrometry, that the Au-Pt nanoalloys favor the formation of acetate from selective C2H4 oxidation. And this on-site-formed acetate intermediate would partially cover the catalyst surface at 0 °C, thus exposing active sites to prolong the continuous and effective C2H4 removal. We also demonstrate, by heat treatment, that the performance of the used catalysts will be fully recovered for at least two times.
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