Hydrogen Production via Glycerol Dry Reforming Over La-NiAl2O3 Catalyst

Glycerol (a bio-waste generated from biodiesel production) has been touted as a promising bio-syngas pre-cursor via reforming route. Previous studies have indicated that carbon deposition is the major perform-ance-limiting factor for nickel (Ni) catalyst during glycerol steam reforming. In the curre...

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Main Authors: Kah, Weng Siew, Hua, Chyn Lee, Jolius, Gimbun, Cheng, C. K.
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spelling ump-64662018-02-21T02:46:37Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6466/ Hydrogen Production via Glycerol Dry Reforming Over La-NiAl2O3 Catalyst Kah, Weng Siew Hua, Chyn Lee Jolius, Gimbun Cheng, C. K. TP Chemical technology Glycerol (a bio-waste generated from biodiesel production) has been touted as a promising bio-syngas pre-cursor via reforming route. Previous studies have indicated that carbon deposition is the major perform-ance-limiting factor for nickel (Ni) catalyst during glycerol steam reforming. In the current paper, dry (CO2)-reforming of glycerol, a new reforming route was carried out over alumina (Al2O3)-supported non-promoted and lanthanum-promoted Ni catalysts. Both sets of catalysts were synthesized via wet co-impregnation procedure. The physicochemical characterization of the catalyst showed that the promoted catalyst possessed smaller metal crystallite size, hence higher metal dispersion compared to the virgin Ni/Al2O3 catalyst. This was also corroborated by the surface images captured by the FESEM analysis. In addition, BET surface area measurement gave 92.05m²/g for non-promoted Ni catalyst whilst promoted catalysts showed an average of 1 to 6% improvement depending on the La loading. Reaction studies at 873 K showed that glycerol dry reforming successfully produced H2 with glycerol conversion and H2 yield that peaked at 9.7% and 25% respectively over 2wt% La content. The optimum catalytic performance by 2%La-Ni/Al2O3 can be attributed to the larger BET surface area and smaller crystallite size that ensured accessi-bility of active catalytic area Department of Chemical Engineering, Diponegoro University 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6466/1/Hydrogen_Production_via_Glycerol_Dry_Reforming_over_La-NiAl2O3_Catalyst.pdf Kah, Weng Siew and Hua, Chyn Lee and Jolius, Gimbun and Cheng, C. K. (2013) Hydrogen Production via Glycerol Dry Reforming Over La-NiAl2O3 Catalyst. Bulletin of Chemical Reaction Engineering & Catalysis, 8 (2). pp. 160-166. ISSN 1978-2993 http://dx.doi.org/10.9767/bcrec.8.2.4874.160-166 DOI: 10.9767/bcrec.8.2.4874.160-166
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Hydrogen Production via Glycerol Dry Reforming Over La-NiAl2O3 Catalyst
description Glycerol (a bio-waste generated from biodiesel production) has been touted as a promising bio-syngas pre-cursor via reforming route. Previous studies have indicated that carbon deposition is the major perform-ance-limiting factor for nickel (Ni) catalyst during glycerol steam reforming. In the current paper, dry (CO2)-reforming of glycerol, a new reforming route was carried out over alumina (Al2O3)-supported non-promoted and lanthanum-promoted Ni catalysts. Both sets of catalysts were synthesized via wet co-impregnation procedure. The physicochemical characterization of the catalyst showed that the promoted catalyst possessed smaller metal crystallite size, hence higher metal dispersion compared to the virgin Ni/Al2O3 catalyst. This was also corroborated by the surface images captured by the FESEM analysis. In addition, BET surface area measurement gave 92.05m²/g for non-promoted Ni catalyst whilst promoted catalysts showed an average of 1 to 6% improvement depending on the La loading. Reaction studies at 873 K showed that glycerol dry reforming successfully produced H2 with glycerol conversion and H2 yield that peaked at 9.7% and 25% respectively over 2wt% La content. The optimum catalytic performance by 2%La-Ni/Al2O3 can be attributed to the larger BET surface area and smaller crystallite size that ensured accessi-bility of active catalytic area
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author Kah, Weng Siew
Hua, Chyn Lee
Jolius, Gimbun
Cheng, C. K.
author_facet Kah, Weng Siew
Hua, Chyn Lee
Jolius, Gimbun
Cheng, C. K.
author_sort Kah, Weng Siew
title Hydrogen Production via Glycerol Dry Reforming Over La-NiAl2O3 Catalyst
title_short Hydrogen Production via Glycerol Dry Reforming Over La-NiAl2O3 Catalyst
title_full Hydrogen Production via Glycerol Dry Reforming Over La-NiAl2O3 Catalyst
title_fullStr Hydrogen Production via Glycerol Dry Reforming Over La-NiAl2O3 Catalyst
title_full_unstemmed Hydrogen Production via Glycerol Dry Reforming Over La-NiAl2O3 Catalyst
title_sort hydrogen production via glycerol dry reforming over la-nial2o3 catalyst
publisher Department of Chemical Engineering, Diponegoro University
publishDate 2013
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6466/
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