Din, Israf Ud and Shaharun, Maizatul Shima and Naeem, A. and Tasleem, S. and Johan, Mohd Rafie (2018) Carbon nanofibers based copper/zirconia catalysts for carbon dioxide hydrogenation to methanol: Effect of copper concentration. Chemical Engineering Journal, 334. pp. 619-629. ISSN 1385-8947, DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2017.10.087.
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A series of novel bimetallic copper/zirconia carbon nanofibers supported catalysts with different Cu contents (5–25 wt%) were synthesized via deposition precipitation method. The physicochemical characterization of the calcined catalysts was carried out by X-ray diffraction, inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectroscopy, N2 adsorption–desorption, N2O chemisorption, temperature programmed reduction, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, high resolution transmission electron microscopy and temperature programmed CO2 desorption. Structure-reactivity correlation for catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol was discussed in details. Reaction studies revealed 15 wt% as optimum Cu concentration for CO2 conversion to methanol with CO2/H2 feed volume ratio of 1:3. Cu surface area was found to play a vital role in methanol synthesis rate. CO2 conversion was observed to be directly proportional to the number of total basic sites. A comparative study of this novel catalyst with the recently reported data revealed the better CO2 conversion at relatively low reaction temperature.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP) and the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia, FRGS No: FRGS/1/2011/SG/UTP/02/13 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Methanol synthesis; Slurry reactor; Cu loading; CNF; Zirconia |
| Subjects: | Q Science > Q Science (General) Q Science > QD Chemistry T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Divisions: | Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Innovation) Office > Nanotechnology & Catalysis Research Centre |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Aug 2019 03:18 |
| Last Modified: | 30 Aug 2019 03:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/22140 |
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