In Situ Investigation of Methane Dry Reforming on Metal/Ceria(111) Surfaces: Metal–Support Interactions and C−H Bond Activation at Low Temperature

Studies with a series of metal/ceria(111) (metal=Co, Ni, Cu; ceria=CeO2) surfaces indicate that metal–oxide interactions can play a very important role for the activation of methane and its reforming with CO2 at relatively low temperatures (600–700 K). Among the systems examined, Co/CeO2(111) exhibi...

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Autores: Liu, Zongyuan, Lustemberg, Pablo G., Gutiérrez, Ramón A., Carey, John J., Palomino, Robert M., Vorokhta, Mykhailo, Grinter, David C., Ramírez, Pedro J., Matolín, Vladimír, Nolan, Michael, Ganduglia-Pirovano, M. V., Senanayake, S.D., Rodriguez, J.A.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2017
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/377028
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/377028
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Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ceria
cobalt
density functional theory
methane dissociation
XPS
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Sumario:Studies with a series of metal/ceria(111) (metal=Co, Ni, Cu; ceria=CeO2) surfaces indicate that metal–oxide interactions can play a very important role for the activation of methane and its reforming with CO2 at relatively low temperatures (600–700 K). Among the systems examined, Co/CeO2(111) exhibits the best performance and Cu/CeO2(111) has negligible activity. Experiments using ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy indicate that methane dissociates on Co/CeO2(111) at temperatures as low as 300 K—generating CHx and COx species on the catalyst surface. The results of density functional calculations show a reduction in the methane activation barrier from 1.07 eV on Co(0001) to 0.87 eV on Co2+/CeO2(111), and to only 0.05 eV on Co0/CeO2−x(111). At 700 K, under methane dry reforming conditions, CO2 dissociates on the oxide surface and a catalytic cycle is established without coke deposition. A significant part of the CHx formed on the Co0/CeO2−x(111) catalyst recombines to yield ethane or ethylene. © 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim