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Drosou C, Nikolaraki E, Georgakopoulou T, Fanourgiakis S, Zaspalis VT, Yentekakis IV. Methane Catalytic Combustion under Lean Conditions over Pristine and Ir-Loaded La 1-xSr xMnO 3 Perovskites: Efficiency, Hysteresis, and Time-on-Stream and Thermal Aging Stabilities. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:2271. [PMID: 37570587 PMCID: PMC10420673 DOI: 10.3390/nano13152271] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2023] [Revised: 08/02/2023] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/13/2023]
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The increasing use of natural gas as an efficient, reliable, affordable, and cleaner energy source, compared with other fossil fuels, has brought the catalytic CH4 complete oxidation reaction into the spotlight as a simple and economic way to control the amount of unconverted methane escaping into the atmosphere. CH4 emissions are a major contributor to the 'greenhouse effect', and therefore, they need to be effectively reduced. Catalytic CH4 oxidation is a promising method that can be used for this purpose. Detailed studies of the activity, oxidative thermal aging, and the time-on-stream (TOS) stability of pristine La1-xSrxMnO3 perovskites (LSXM; X = % substitution of La with Sr = 0, 30, 50 and 70%) and iridium-loaded Ir/La1-xSrxMnO3 (Ir/LSXM) perovskite catalysts were conducted in a temperature range of 400-970 °C to achieve complete methane oxidation under excess oxygen (lean) conditions. The effect of X on the properties of the perovskites, and thus, their catalytic performance during heating/cooling cycles, was studied using samples that were subjected to various pretreatment conditions in order to gain an in-depth understanding of the structure-activity/stability correlations. Large (up to ca. 300 °C in terms of T50) inverted volcano-type differences in catalytic activity were found as a function of X, with the most active catalysts being those where X = 0%, and the least active were those where X = 50%. Inverse hysteresis phenomena (steady-state rate multiplicities) were revealed in heating/cooling cycles under reaction conditions, the occurrence of which was found to depend strongly on the employed catalyst pre-treatment (pre-reduction or pre-oxidation), while their shape and the loop amplitude were found to depend on X and the presence of Ir. All findings were consistently interpreted, which involved a two-term mechanistic model that utilized the synergy of Eley-Rideal and Mars-van Krevelen kinetics.
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- Catherine Drosou
- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 731 00 Chania, Crete, Greece; (E.N.); (T.G.); (S.F.)
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 731 00 Chania, Crete, Greece; (E.N.); (T.G.); (S.F.)
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 731 00 Chania, Crete, Greece; (E.N.); (T.G.); (S.F.)
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 731 00 Chania, Crete, Greece; (E.N.); (T.G.); (S.F.)
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 541 24 Thessaloniki, Greece;
- Chemical Process and Energy Resources Institute, Center for Research and Technology Hellas (CPERI/CERTH), 570 01 Thermi, Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry and Chemical Processes, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 731 00 Chania, Crete, Greece; (E.N.); (T.G.); (S.F.)
- Institute of GeoEnergy, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH/IG), 731 00 Chania, Greece
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Rostovshchikova TN, Shilina MI, Gurevich SA, Yavsin DA, Veselov GB, Stoyanovskii VO, Vedyagin AA. Studies on High-Temperature Evolution of Low-Loaded Pd Three-Way Catalysts Prepared by Laser Electrodispersion. MATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 16:ma16093501. [PMID: 37176383 PMCID: PMC10179799 DOI: 10.3390/ma16093501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2023] [Revised: 04/23/2023] [Accepted: 04/28/2023] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Pd/Al2O3 catalyst of the "crust" type with Pd loading of 0.03 wt.% was prepared by the deposition of 2 nm Pd particles on the outer surface of the alumina support using laser electrodispersion (LED). This technique differs from a standard laser ablation into a liquid in that the formation of monodisperse nanoparticles occurs in the laser torch plasma in a vacuum. As is found, the LED-prepared catalyst surpasses Pd-containing three-way catalysts, obtained by conventional chemical synthesis, in activity and stability in CO oxidation under prompt thermal aging conditions. Thus, the LED-prepared Pd/Al2O3 catalyst showed the best thermal stability up to 1000 °C. The present research is focused on the study of the high-temperature evolution of the Pd/Al2O3 catalyst in two reaction mixtures by a set of physicochemical methods (transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and diffuse reflectance UV-vis spectroscopy). In order to follow the dispersion of the Pd nanoparticles during the thermal aging procedure, the testing reaction of ethane hydrogenolysis was also applied. The possible reasons for the high stability of LED-prepared catalysts are suggested.
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- Tatiana N Rostovshchikova
- Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1/3 Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Department of Chemistry, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1/3 Leninskie Gory, 119991 Moscow, Russia
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- Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 26 Politechnicheskaya Str., 194021 Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 26 Politechnicheskaya Str., 194021 Saint Petersburg, Russia
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- Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, 5 Lavrentyev Avenue, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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- Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, 5 Lavrentyev Avenue, 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
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Drosou C, Nikolaraki E, Nikolaou V, Koilia E, Artemakis G, Stratakis A, Evdou A, Charisiou ND, Goula MA, Zaspalis V, Yentekakis IV. Activity and Thermal Aging Stability of La 1-xSr xMnO 3 (x = 0.0, 0.3, 0.5, 0.7) and Ir/La 1-xSr xMnO 3 Catalysts for CO Oxidation with Excess O 2. NANOMATERIALS (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2023; 13:663. [PMID: 36839034 PMCID: PMC9964921 DOI: 10.3390/nano13040663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2023] [Revised: 02/05/2023] [Accepted: 02/07/2023] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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The catalytic oxidation of CO is probably the most investigated reaction in the literature, for decades, because of its extended environmental and fundamental importance. In this paper, the oxidation of CO on La1-xSrxMnO3 perovskites (LSMx), either unloaded or loaded with dispersed Ir nanoparticles (Ir/LSMx), was studied in the temperature range 100-450 °C under excess O2 conditions (1% CO + 5% O2). The perovskites, of the type La1-xSrxMnO3 (x = 0.0, 0.3, 0.5 and 0.7), were prepared by the coprecipitation method. The physicochemical and structural properties of both the LSMx and the homologous Ir/LSMx catalysts were evaluated by various techniques (XRD, N2 sorption-desorption by BET-BJH, H2-TPR and H2-Chem), in order to better understand the structure-activity-stability correlations. The effect of preoxidation/prereduction/aging of the catalysts on their activity and stability was also investigated. Results revealed that both LSMx and Ir/LSMx are effective for CO oxidation, with the latter being superior to the former. In both series of materials, increasing the substitution of La by Sr in the composition of the perovskite resulted to a gradual suppression of their CO oxidation activity when these were prereduced; the opposite was true for preoxidized samples. Inverse hysteresis phenomena in activity were observed during heating/cooling cycles on the prereduced Ir/LSMx catalysts with the loop amplitude narrowing with increasing Sr-content in LSMx. Oxidative thermal sintering experiments at high temperatures revealed excellent antisintering behavior of Ir nanoparticles supported on LSMx, resulting from perovskite's favorable antisintering properties of high oxygen storage capacity and surface oxygen vacancies.
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- Catherine Drosou
- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry & Chemical Processes, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Crete, Greece
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry & Chemical Processes, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Crete, Greece
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry & Chemical Processes, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Crete, Greece
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry & Chemical Processes, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Crete, Greece
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry & Chemical Processes, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Crete, Greece
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- School of Mineral Resources Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Crete, Greece
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
- Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute/Center for Research & Technology Hellas (CPERI/CERTH), 6th km Harilaou-Thermis, Thermi, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, 50100 Koila, Kozani, Greece
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, 50100 Koila, Kozani, Greece
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
- Chemical Process & Energy Resources Institute/Center for Research & Technology Hellas (CPERI/CERTH), 6th km Harilaou-Thermis, Thermi, 57001 Thessaloniki, Greece
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- Laboratory of Physical Chemistry & Chemical Processes, School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Crete, 73100 Chania, Crete, Greece
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Stadnichenko AI, Slavinskaya EM, Fedorova EA, Goncharova DA, Zaikovskii VI, Kardash TY, Svetlichnyi VA, Boronin AI. ACTIVATION OF Au–CeO2 COMPOSITES PREPARED BY PULSED LASER ABLATION IN THE REACTION OF LOW-TEMPERATURE CO OXIDATION. J STRUCT CHEM+ 2021. [DOI: 10.1134/s0022476621120118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Lashina E, Slavinskaya E, Boronin A. Low-temperature activity of Pd/CeO2 catalysts: Mechanism of CO interaction and mathematical modelling of TPR-CO kinetic data. Chem Eng Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2021.116812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Xiong J, Zhang P, Li Y, Wei Y, Zhang Y, Liu J, Zhao Z. Ordered macro-mesoporous nanostructure of Pd/ZrO2 catalyst for boosting catalytic NO-assisted soot oxidation. Chem Eng Sci 2021. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2021.116635] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Preparation and Investigation of Pd and Bimetallic Pd-Sn Nanocrystals on γ-Al2O3. CRYSTALS 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/cryst11040444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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One of the key factors for producing highly dispersed controlled nanoparticles is the method used for metal deposition. The decomposition of metal-organic precursors is a good method for deposition of metal nanoparticles with very small sizes and narrow size distributions on the surface of various supports. The preparation process of Pd and bimetallic Pd-Sn nanoparticles supported onto γ-Al2O3 is considered. The samples were prepared by diffusional co-impregnation of the γ-Al2O3 support by using organometallic Pd(acac)2 and Sn(acac)2Cl2 precursors. To achieve the formation of Pd and bimetallic Pd-Sn nanoparticles on the support surface, the synthesized samples were then subjected to thermal decomposition under Ar (to decompose the organometallic bound to the surface while keeping the formed nanoparticles small) followed by an oxidation in O2 (to eliminate the organic compounds remaining on the surface) and a reduction in H2 (to reduce the nanoparticles oxidized during the previous step). A combination of methods (ICP-OES, TPR-H2, XPS, TEM/EDX) was used to compare the physical-chemical properties of the synthesized Pd and bimetallic Pd-Sn nanoparticles supported on the γ-Al2O3. The three samples exhibit narrow size distribution with a majority on nanoparticles between 3 and 5 nm. Local EDX measurements clearly showed that the nanoparticles are bimetallic with the expected chemical composition and the measured global composition by ICP-OES. The surface composition and electronic properties of Pd and Sn on the γ-Al2O3 support were investigated by XPS, in particular the chemical state of palladium and tin after each step of thermal decomposition treatments (oxidation, reduction) by the XPS method has been carried out. The reducibility of the prepared bimetallic nanoparticles was measured by hydrogen temperature programmed reduction (TPR-H2). The temperature programmed reduction TPR-H2 experiments have confirmed the existence of strong surface interactions between Pd and Sn, as evidenced by hydrogen spillover of Pd to Sn (Pd-assisted reduction of oxygen precovered Sn). These results lead us to propose a mechanism for the formation of the bimetallic nanoparticles.
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Carbon monoxide (CO) oxidation is considered an important reaction in heterogeneous industrial catalysis and has been extensively studied. Pd supported on SiO2 aerogel catalysts exhibit good catalytic activity toward this reaction owing to their CO bond activation capability and thermal stability. Pd/SiO2 catalysts were investigated using carbon monoxide (CO) oxidation as a model reaction. The catalyst becomes active, and the conversion increases after the temperature reaches the ignition temperature (Tig). A normal hysteresis in carbon monoxide (CO) oxidation has been observed, where the catalysts continue to exhibit high catalytic activity (CO conversion remains at 100%) during the extinction even at temperatures lower than Tig. The catalyst was characterized using BET, TEM, XPS, TGA-DSC, and FTIR. In this work, the influence of pretreatment conditions and stability of the active sites on the catalytic activity and hysteresis is presented. The CO oxidation on the Pd/SiO2 catalyst has been attributed to the dissociative adsorption of molecular oxygen and the activation of the C-O bond, followed by diffusion of adsorbates at Tig to form CO2. Whereas, the hysteresis has been explained by the enhanced stability of the active site caused by thermal effects, pretreatment conditions, Pd-SiO2 support interaction, and PdO formation and decomposition.
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