Abstract
Non-thermal plasma activation has been used to enable low-temperature water-gas shift over a Au/CeZrO4 catalyst. The activity obtained was comparable with that attained by heating the catalyst to 180 °C providing an opportunity for the hydrogen production to be obtained under conditions where the thermodynamic limitations are minimal. Using in situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy (DRIFTS), structural changes associated with the gold nanoparticles in the catalyst have been observed which are not found under thermal activation indicating a weakening of the Au−CO bond and a change in the mechanism of deactivation.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 5579-5583 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Angewandte Chemie - International Edition |
Volume | 56 |
Issue number | 20 |
Early online date | 12 Apr 2017 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published (in print/issue) - 2 May 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The UK Catalysis Hub is kindly thanked for resources and support provided via our membership of the UK Catalysis Hub Consortium and funded by EPSRC (Portfolio Grants EP/K014706/2, EP/K014668/1, EP/K014854/1, EP/K014714/1, and EP/I019693/1). Open access data can be found via the University of Manchester research portal. We are grateful to Helen Daly (Queen's University Belfast) for discussion, to Fabio de Rosa (Queen's University Belfast) for the thermodynamic equilibrium calculations (obtained using the Convergence tool of Aspen Plus 8.0) and to Emma Gibson (Harwell Research Complex) for the BET measurements. JJ Delgado is grateful to Ramon y Cajal program and the Ce-NanoSurPhases project grant from MINECO.
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© 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim
Keywords
- carbon monoxide
- heterogeneous catalysis
- plasma catalysis
- thermodynamic equilibrium
- water–gas shift reaction