On the mechanism of methanol synthesis and the water-gas shift reaction on ZnO |
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Authors: | J Tabatabaei B H Sakakini K C Waugh |
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Affiliation: | (1) School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Faraday Building, Sackville Street, Manchester, M60 1QD;(2) Davy Process Technology, Technology Centre, Princeton Drive, Stockton-on-Tees, TS17 6PY |
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Abstract: | Zinc oxide catalyses both methanol synthesis and the forward and ‘everse water-gas shift reaction (f- and r- WGSR). Copper
also catalyses both reactions, but at lower temperatures than ZnO. Presently the combination of Cu and ZnO stabilized by Al2O3 is the preferred catalyst for methanol synthesis and for the f- and r- WGSR. On Cu, the mechanism of methanol synthesis is
by hydrogenation of an adsorbed bidentate formate 1] (the most stable adsorbed species in methanol synthesis), while the
f- and r- WGSR proceeds by a redox mechanism. The f-WGSR proceeds by H2O oxidizing the Cu and CO, reducing the adsorbed oxide and the r-WGSR proceeds by CO2 oxidising the Cu and H2, reducing it 2–5]. Here we show that the mechanisms of both reactions are subtly different on ZnO. While methanol is shown
to be formed on ZnO through a formate intermediate, it is a monodentate formate species which is the intermediate; the f-
and r-WGS reactions also proceed through a formate – a bidentate formate - in sharp contrast to the mechanism on Cu. |
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