Performance Study of Methane Dry Reforming on Ni/ZrO2 Catalyst

Dry reforming of methane (DRM) has important and positive environmental and industrial impacts, as it consumes two of the top greenhouse gases in order to produce syngas (H2 and CO) and thus hydrogen (H2). The performance of DRM of conversions of CH4 and CO2 was investigated over Ni/ZrO2 catalysts....

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Published in:Energies (Basel) 2022-05, Vol.15 (10), p.3841
Main Authors: Fakeeha, Anis, Kurdi, Abdulrahman, Al-Baqmaa, Yousef, Ibrahim, Ahmed, Abasaeed, Ahmed, Al-Fatesh, Ahmed
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Basicity
Carbon dioxide
Catalysts
Catalytic oxidation
Conversion
dry reforming of CH4
Fixed beds
Flow rates
Flow velocity
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse gases
Metals
Methane
nickel
Nitrates
Reaction time
Reforming
Synthesis gas
Yttria-stabilized zirconia
Yttrium oxide
Zirconia
Zirconium dioxide
ZrO2
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Summary:Dry reforming of methane (DRM) has important and positive environmental and industrial impacts, as it consumes two of the top greenhouse gases in order to produce syngas (H2 and CO) and thus hydrogen (H2). The performance of DRM of conversions of CH4 and CO2 was investigated over Ni/ZrO2 catalysts. The catalytic performance of all prepared catalysts for DRM was assessed in a micro-tubular fixed bed reactor under similar reaction conditions (i.e., activation and reaction temperatures at 700 °C, a feed flow rate of 70 mL/min, reaction temperature, and a 440 min reaction time). Various characterization techniques, such as BET, CO2-TPD, TGA, XRD, EDX, and TEM, were employed. The zirconia support was modified with MgO or Y2O3. The yttria-stabilized zirconia catalyst (5Ni15YZr) provided the optimum activity performance of CH4 and CO2 conversions of 56.1 and 64.3%, respectively, at 700 °C and a 70 mL/min flow rate; this catalyst also had the highest basicity. The Ni-based catalyst was promoted with Cs, Ga, and Sr. The Sr-promoted catalyst produced the highest enhancement of activity. The influence of the reaction temperature and the feed flow rate on 5Ni15YZr and 5NiSr15YZr indicated that the activity increased with the increase in the reaction temperature and lower feed flow rate. For 5Ni3Sr15YZr, at a reaction temperature of 800 °C, the CH4 and CO2 conversions were 76.3 and 79.9%, respectively, whereas at 700 °C, the conversions of CH4 and CO2 were 66.6 and 79.6% respectively.
ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en15103841