Catalytic methanol decomposition to carbon monoxide and hydrogen over NiSiO2 of high nickel content

✍ Scribed by Yasuyuki Matsumura; Naoki Tode; Tetsuo Yazawa; Masatake Haruta

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 313 KB
• Volume: 99
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1381-1169
• DOI: 10.1016/1381-1169(95)00047-x

✦ Synopsis

The methanol decomposition to carbon monoxide and hydrogen is catalyzed at 250°C over nickel-silica composites prepared by the sol-gel method while the activity is increased with increase in the content of nickel up to 40 wt%. The activity of nickel supported on silica prepared by the conventional impregnation technique is also increased with the nickel content but almost reaches a plateau at the nickel content of 10 wt%. The maximum activity found with the former is significantly higher than that with the latter.