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Bimetallic Catalyst System for Steam Reforming

Dam, Anh Hoang
Doctoral thesis
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2015
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To improve catalytic performance of Ni supported catalysts for hydrogen production, a

monolayer of a noble metal is introduced on the surface of Ni particles. A series of

surface alloy M/Ni catalysts was prepared by redox reaction of the reduced Ni catalyst

with various types of noble metals (M: Ag, Pt, Pd, Rh, Re, Ru) at different surface

composition. Hydrotalcite-like (HT) material was used as support for the catalyst. The

loading amount of Ni was fixed at 12 wt% for all catalysts (obtained atomic ratio

Ni:Mg:Al = 0.73:5.27:2). The second metal M loading was varied 0-100% of surface Ni

atoms on the Ni particles.

The surface modifications of Ni particles by alloying with M are determined by means

of XRD, hydrogen chemisorption, and XPS. It was found that M atoms are selectively

located at the Ni surfaces, and form a stable surface alloy with Ni. H2 chemisorption

measurements showed a dramatic change in the amount of absorbed hydrogen on the

particles which is caused by the surface M-Ni alloy. Particularly, the Ni dispersion in

bimetallic Ag/Ni catalyst exponentially decreased with increasing surface fraction of

Ag. XPS results confirmed the existence of metallic M and Ni in the bimetallic

catalysts, and reveal a shift in binding energy of both Ni metal and M metal. The

suppression of Ni peak is observed when surface M fraction increased.

The effects of surface Ni-Ag alloy on carbon formation during methane decomposition

(MD) reaction and on catalytic activity of the catalyst in steam reforming of methane

(SRM) are performed in this work. The selective deposition of Ag on surface Ni

substantially decreases carbon formation during MD and the catalytic activity during

SRM. The very small amount of 0,075wt% Ag deposited on the surface Ni (surface Ag

fraction of 0.03) reduces the carbon formation in methane decomposition 10 times

compared with the mono Ni catalyst. From the correlation of initial rate and surface Ag

fraction, the active Ni(211) sites are predicted to be 0.055. Both experimental

estimations and theoretical density functional theory (DFT) calculations suggested that

Ag atoms deposit first on all Ni(211) sites. As a result, blockage of the steps on Ni

nanoparticles dramatically decreased the initial methane decomposition rate and the

TOF of methane steam reforming. After filling all the active Ni(211) sites, the

deposition of Ag on the Ni surface was followed by the less active Ni(100) facet, and finally the lowest Ni(111) facet, which causes a relatively small decrease of the initial

rate of methane decomposition and TOF of methane steam reforming with increasing

Ag loading. The kinetic study of methane decomposition shows that surface Ni-Ag

alloy leads to decrease in both the pre-exponential factor and surprisingly also of the

activation energy of Ag/Ni catalysts with increasing Ag loading. But both the kinetic

study and DFT calculation of methane steam reforming indicate that the apparent

activation energy increases simultaneously when the surface Ag fraction increased.

The effects of surface Ni alloying with various types of second metals (M: Ag, Pt, Pd,

Rh, Re, Ru) at different surface compositions, on the catalytic behavior in MD reaction

and SRM reaction, were also conducted. It was found that the surface M-Ni alloy

influenced the activity of the catalyst for the two reactions, and that changes were a

function of the surface M fraction. Among all bimetallic catalysts, the Ag/Ni-HT

catalyst displays the lowest values for the methane decomposition rate (rd) and methane

steam reforming rate (rr), and the both rates decrease with increasing Ag loading. The

Pt/Ni-HT exhibits the highest rd and rr at a surface fraction (a) of 0.25. The Rh/Ni-HT

presents the moderate rd at both a = 0.25 and a = 1, but the highest rr is observed at high

Rh loading (a = 1). The M/Ni-HT catalysts show more resistance toward carbon

formation than the monometallic Ni catalyst in the following order monometallic Ni <<

Pt0.25Ni(s)0.75 < Pd0.25Ni(s)0.75 ≤ Ru0.25Ni(s)0.75 ≤ Rh0.25Ni(s)0.75 ≤ Re0.25Ni(s)0.75 <

Ag0.25Ni(s)0.75 at surface M fraction of 0.25 and monometallic Ni < Pt1Ni(s)0 < Rh1Ni(s)0 <

Re1Ni(s)0 < Ag1Ni(s)0 at surface M fraction of 1. Interestingly, M1Ni(s)0 catalysts (M: Pt,

Pd, or Rh) exhibits higher carbon formation than M0.25Ni(s)0.75 catalyst. The activation

energies of methane decomposition over M/Ni-HT increase in the following order:

Ag0.25Ni(s)0.75 < Rh0.25Ni(s)0.75 ≤ Ru0.25Ni(s)0.75 < Pt0.25Ni(s)0.75 < Pd0.25Ni(s)0.75 <

Re0.25Ni(s)0.75 and Ag1Ni(s)0 < Rh1Ni(s)0 = Pt1Ni(s)0 < Re1Ni(s)0 < Pd1Ni(s)0. The effect of

changes in the d-band center of Ni catalyst by alloying with M, on the catalytic activity

over both reactions, is also addressed. If the d-band center shifts toward more negative,

the activity of surface alloy for both reactions is increased. However when the reactions

take place at high temperature, the structure of PtNi is rearranged; as a result, extremely

higher activity than the trend is observed for PtNi in both reactions.
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