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Nickel Catalysts Supported on Ash-Free Coal for Steam Reforming of Toluene (무회분탄에 분산된 니켈 촉매의 톨루엔 수증기 개질)

  • PRISCILLA, LIA;KIM, SOOHYUN;YOO, JIHO;CHOI, HOKYUNG;RHIM, YOUNGJOON;LIM, JEONGHWAN;KIM, SANGDO;CHUN, DONGHYUK;LEE, SIHYUN
    • Journal of Hydrogen and New Energy
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    • v.29 no.6
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    • pp.559-569
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    • 2018

  • Catalytic supports made of carbon have many advantages, such as high coking resistance, tailorable pore and surface structures, and ease of recycling of waste catalysts. Moreover, they do not require pre-reduction. In this study, ash-free coal (AFC) was obtained by the thermal extraction of carbonaceous components from raw coal and its performance as a carbon catalytic support was compared with that of well-known activated carbon (AC). Nickel was dispersed on the carbon supports and the resulting catalysts were applied to the steam reforming of toluene (SRT), a model compound of biomass tar. Interestingly, nickel catalysts dispersed on AFC, which has a very small surface area (${\sim}0.13m^2/g$), showed higher activity than those dispersed on AC, which has a large surface area ($1,173A/cm^2$). X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis showed that the particle size of nickel deposited on AFC was smaller than that deposited on AC, with the average values on AFC ${\approx}11nm$ and on AC ${\approx}23nm$. This proved that heteroatomic functional groups in AFC, such as carboxyls, can provide ion-exchange or adsorption sites for the nano-scale dispersion of nickel. In addition, the pore structure, surface morphology, chemical composition, and chemical state of the prepared catalysts were analyzed using Brunauer-Emmett-Taylor (BET) analysis, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), x-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, and temperature-programmed reduction (TPR).

  • https://doi.org/10.7316/KHNES.2018.29.6.559 인용 PDF KSCI HTML