Chem. J. Chinese Universities ›› 2002, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (12): 2329.

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Studies on Mechanism of Methanol Decomposition over Pd/CeO2 Catalyst

YANG Cheng, DONG Qing-Nian, REN Jie, SUN Yu-Han   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Coal Conversion, Institute of Coal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Taiyuan 030001, China
  • Received:2002-01-10 Online:2002-12-24 Published:2002-12-24

Abstract: The interaction between hydrogen and CeO2 support and Pd/CeO2 catalysts is characterized by TPR and H2-TPD, while the adsorption and decomposition of methanol over CeO2 and Pd/CeO2 catalysts were studied by in-situ FTIR technique, then a new model of the mechanism for the methanol decomposition over Pd/CeO2 catalyst was proposed. It was found that the lattice oxygen of CeO 2 was active towards oxidation of the adsorbed methanol to form formate species, which were then reduced by the hydrogen produced and activated on Pd. The anion Cl- promoted the interaction between hydrogen and Pd/CeO2 catalyst, so a synergistic effect between Pd and CeO2 was proved by their action of lattice oxygen and hydrogen.

Key words: Methanol decomposition, CeO2, Pd/CeO2, Reaction mechanism

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