Low temperature steam reforming of bio-ethanol over Ni/CuO-Al₂O₃ catalysts
by A. Venugopal, M. Sudhakar, R. Kishore, Reema Sarkari, J. Ashok, F.B. Noronha, S.M. De Lima, A. Hari Padmasri
International Journal of Nanotechnology (IJNT), Vol. 7, No. 9/10/11/12, 2010

Abstract: Various loadings of Ni (5-20wt%) supported on CuO-Al₂O₃ mixed oxide catalysts has been explored for the low temperature steam reforming of bio-ethanol. It has been found that 10wt%Ni/CuO-Al₂O₃ catalyst showed relatively high ethanol conversion as well as selectivity towards H₂ (∼74%) compared to other catalysts. The better performance of the 10wt%Ni/CuO-Al₂O₃ is explained based on the physico-chemical characteristics of the catalysts determined by BET – surface area, X-ray diffraction analysis (XRD), temperature programmed reduction (TPR), O₂ pulse chemisorption, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and differential thermal/thermo gravimetric (DT/TGA) analyses.

Online publication date: Tue, 17-Aug-2010

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