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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Dry Reforming of Methane by Ni-In-Ce Supported Catalysts

Alharbi, Abdulrahman 08 1900 (has links)
In light of global warming’s environmental implications, research is shifted towards potential processes that can utilize CO2 and reduce its emissions in the industrial sector. One of the promising processes is dry reforming of methane (DRM), which is capable of utilizing CO2 and producing valuable syngas (H2 and CO). The main challenge of DRM is the deactivation of catalysts under the reaction temperatures (above 700 °C) due to sintering of the active metal and coke formation. Ni-based catalysts are the most widely investigated catalysts in literature for DRM due to their cost efficiency and availability. This study is an extension of the work done by Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (SABIC) devoted to investigating Ni-Ce-In system for DRM reaction. Five catalysts were synthesized by dry impregnation method according to SABIC synthesis procedure (Ni/Al2O3, Ni-In/Al2O3, Ni/CeO2/Al2O3, Ni/In-CeO2/Al2O3, and Ni-In/CeO2/Al2O3). The metallic loading targets were 7.5 wt.%, 10 wt.%, and 0.8 wt.% for nickel, cerium, and indium, respectively. The addition of indium in combination with cerium resulted in the highest catalytic activity. Additionally, the co-impregnation of indium and cerium resulted in enhancing the catalytic activity more than subsequential impregnation (Ni/In-CeO2/Al2O3 compared to Ni-In/CeO2/Al2O3). The addition of cerium or indium separately with nickel did not seem to affect activity since Ni/Al2O3, Ni-In/Al2O3, and Ni/CeO2/Al2O3 exhibited similar conversion values. All catalysts were stable for more than two days under DRM conditions without deactivating. Therefore, deactivation behaviors of the catalysts were not covered in this study.

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