Journal
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF ADVANCED MATERIALS
Volume 20, Issue 1, Pages 356-366Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/14686996.2019.1590127
Keywords
Copper; cubic indium oxide; in situ X-ray diffraction; Cu2In; reduction
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Funding
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF) within the SFB project [F4503-N16]
- DACH project [I2877-N34]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DACH project) [AR 617/12-1]
- Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- AP program [ALS-08865]
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The reactive metal-support interaction in the Cu-In2O3 system and its implications on the CO2 selectivity in methanol steam reforming (MSR) have been assessed using nanosized Cu particles on a powdered cubic In2O3 support. Reduction in hydrogen at 300 degrees C resulted in the formation of metallic Cu particles on In2O3. This system already represents a highly CO2-selective MSR catalyst with similar to 93% selectivity, but only 56% methanol conversion and a maximum H-2 formation rate of 1.3 mu mol g(Cu)(-1) s(-1). After reduction at 400 degrees C, the system enters an In2O3-supported intermetallic compound state with Cu2In as the majority phase. Cu2In exhibits markedly different self-activating properties at equally pronounced CO2 selectivities between 92% and 94%. A methanol conversion improvement from roughly 64% to 84% accompanied by an increase in the maximum hydrogen formation rate from 1.8 to 3.8 mu mol g(Cu)(-1) s(-1) has been observed from the first to the fourth consecutive runs. The presented results directly show the prospective properties of a new class of Cu-based intermetallic materials, beneficially combining the MSR properties of the catalyst's constituents Cu and In2O3. In essence, the results also open up the pathway to in-depth development of potentially CO2-selective bulk intermetallic Cu-In compounds with well-defined stoichiometry in MSR. [GRAPHICS]
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