The 1.5% Au/Fe2O3 catalysts prepared by an inverse co-precipitation method calcined at different temperatures was characterized by XRD, XPS, TEM, BET, and tested by CO selective oxidation in H2-rich gas. The results show that the chemical composition and activity of the catalysts are greatly changed with the variation of calcination temperature. The catalyst Au/Fe2O3 calcined at 200℃, highly dispersed particles with the partially oxidized gold species on the support with the mean diameter of 3nm～5nm, displayes the best activity and selectivity of CO selective oxidation. However, the catalytic activity of Au/Fe2O3 decreases drastically with increasing calcination temperature due to the aggregation of metallic gold and bigger particle sizes. It is found that the catalytic behavior is related to the gold particle size but the nature of the support. On the basis of characterization data, in addition to the particle size of metallic gold, the oxidation states of gold are proven to be important for CO selective oxidation in H2-rich gas.
Hydrogen production by catalytic steam reforming of methanol over a series of coprecipitated Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalysts under atmospheric pressure in a microreactor has been studied Effects of catalyst composition, reaction temperature and activation conditions on the catalytic activity have been investigated Crystal phases of catalysts were analyzed by XRD The results showed that Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalysts displayed high activity and selectivity for hydrogen and stability The optimized molar ratio is Cu/Zn=10, a maximum methanol conversion of 994?mol%, hydrogen selectivity of 999?mol% and CO molar fraction of 0007% were obtained in the steam reforming reaction with the catalyst containing 45?mol% copper XRD results showed that the diffraction peaks of CuO in the catalyst were clearly lower and broaden It indicated that high dispersion of small copper crystallites on the catalyst surface was formed under the calcination conditions It is suggested that the good performance of Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalysts partly resulted from well dispersed
