Alternative energy sources have been investigated for utilization in various applications to mitigate carbon dioxide emissions. The transportation sector is one of the major sectors that require the adaptation of renewable energy storage technologies for onboard applications. Formic acid is a liquid energy carrier that has the potential of replacing current fuels and mitigating carbon dioxide emissions through a circular carbon economy. The production of energy from formic acid can be achieved by homogenous catalysis to extract hydrogen from formic acid. The most promising metals for formic acid dehydrogenation in aqueous solution have been mainly ruthenium and iridium. While iridium has mostly surpassed ruthenium, further exploration of ruthenium is necessary because it is more economical.
This work presents the synthesis and catalytic performance of a N,N-bidentate Ru(II) complex. X-ray diffraction (XRD), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and Mass spectrometry (MS) were used to confirm the structure of the catalyst. The title complex was found to be an efficient system for formic acid dehydrogenation to hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide in the aqueous phase. The highest TOF achieved is 656 h-1 in the presence of two equivalents of sodium formate to formic acid in water at 90 °C. There was no detection of carbon monoxide throughout the reaction process, suggesting the high selectivity of this catalytic system.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:kaust.edu.sa/oai:repository.kaust.edu.sa:10754/690923 |
| Date | 04 1900 |
| Creators | Alshehri, Rawan |
| Contributors | Huang, Kuo-Wei, Physical Science and Engineering (PSE) Division, Cavallo, Luigi, Mohammed, Omar F. |
| Source Sets | King Abdullah University of Science and Technology |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Rights | 2024-04-09, At the time of archiving, the student author of this thesis opted to temporarily restrict access to it. The full text of this thesis will become available to the public after the expiration of the embargo on 2024-04-09. |
| Relation | N/A |
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