کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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6454914 | 1418818 | 2017 | 6 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
- CO2 conversion to liquid fuels by reacting with renewable hydrogen.
- Reduced CuFeO2 catalyst produces C5+ hydrocarbons of â¼65% and CH4 of only 2-3%.
- The catalyst allows facile in-situ carburization to Hägg carbide active for C5+ formation.
Paradigm of climate change mitigation technologies is shifting from carbon capture and storage (CCS) to carbon capture and utilization (CCU). Here we propose a new path to CCU - direct CO2 conversion to liquid transportation fuels by reacting with renewable hydrogen produced by solar water splitting. The highly promising and CO2-neutral CCU system is possible by our discovery of a new catalyst that produces liquid hydrocarbon (C5+) selectivity of â¼65% and greatly suppressed CH4 formation to 2-3%, which represents an unprecedented selectivity pattern for direct catalytic CO2 hydrogenation and is very similar to that of conventional CO-based Fischer-Tropsch (FT) synthesis. The catalyst was prepared by reduction of delafossite-CuFeO2 and in-situ carburization to Hägg carbide (Ï-Fe5C2), the active phase for heavy hydrocarbon formation. The reference catalysts derived from bare Fe2O3, CuO-Fe2O3 mixture, and spinel CuFe2O4 are much less active and produce mainly light hydrocarbons, highlighting the critical role of delafossite-CuFeO2 as the catalyst precursor. The new catalyst breaks through the limitation of CO2-based FT synthesis and will open the avenue for new opportunity for carbon recycling into valuable liquid fuels at the similar conditions to industrially practiced CO-FT synthesis.
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Journal: Applied Catalysis B: Environmental - Volume 202, March 2017, Pages 605-610