Το work with title Dry reforming of methane over supported Rh and Ru catalysts: effect of the support (Al2O3, TiO2, ZrO2, YSZ) on the activity and reaction pathway by Androulakis Athanasios, Gentekakis Ioannis, Panagiotopoulou Paraskevi is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Bibliographic Citation
A. Androulakis, I. V. Yentekakis and P. Panagiotopoulou, “Dry reforming of methane over supported Rh and Ru catalysts: effect of the support (Al2O3, TiO2, ZrO2, YSZ) on the activity and reaction pathway,” Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, vol. 48, no. 87, pp. 33886-33902, Oct. 2023, doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.03.114.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2023.03.114
The effect of Al2O3, TiO2, ZrO2 and Yttria-Stabilized Zirconia (YSZ) supports on the activity of the dry reforming of CH4 towards syngas production was investigated for Rh and Ru catalysts. Ruthenium-based catalysts were found to generally be more active than Rh leading H2/CO ratios close to unity above 700 °C. Methane conversion turnover frequency (TOF) over Rh catalysts becomes optimum for Rh/YSZ followed by Rh/TiO2 and Rh/ZrO2, and finally Rh/Al2O3, which exhibited the lowest activity. The performance order is different for Ru catalysts, with TOF being increased in the order Ru/Al2O3