To explore a green, cheap, and high-performance catalyst for lipid hydrotreatment into green diesel, the non-noble metal catalysts (Fe, Cu, Co, Ni, and Mo) with Al 2 O 3 carrier were prepared. Their catalytic performance in oleic acid hydrotreatment was compared, and the metal loading was studied. The characterizations (XRD, N 2 physical sorption, H 2 -TPR, and XPS) were utilized to elucidate the catalytic property. In oleic acid hydrotreatment, the catalytic activity of 5 monometallic catalysts was in the following order: Co > Mo > Ni > Fe > Cu, and the Co/Al 2 O 3 catalyst achieved 94.4% conversion and 91.8% alkane yield. Among 6 Co loadings (5, 10, 15, 20, 25, and 30 wt%), 25 wt% was optimal because it reached the balance of the surface area and the number of Co active sites. Moreover, the lipid hydrotreatment over Co/Al 2 O 3 catalyst occurred mainly via DCX/DCN route; meanwhile, the cracking reaction also happened. Graphical Abstract
Hao Zhu,Yang Wang,Xiaoling Zheng,Pan Li,Yingying Zhu,Xinbao Li
Green hydrogen production from renewable biomass via bio-oil catalytic steam reforming was a prospective technology. In order to accelerate the development of high-performance and long-term catalyst, we selected acetic acid as a typical bio-oil model compound to carry out the studies of steam reforming. Excellent bimetallic Pt-Co/Al 2 O 3 catalysts were prepared using a sol-gel auto-combustion method. The effects of the molar ratio of ethylene glycol : citric acid : metal ions (EG/CA/M) on the catalyst structure and subsequent reforming performance were systematically investigated. It was found that the catalyst’s textural properties, reducibility , basic sites, and the dispersion of active metal could be carefully tuned by the EG/CA/M ratio. The catalyst prepared under EG/CA/M ratio of 6:3:1 performed the best reactivity in acetic acid steam reforming, showing a 97.6% acetic acid conversion and a 96.6% H 2 yield at the reaction conditions of 650 °C, steam to carbon molar ratio of 5, and space velocity of 6957 h –1 . Furthermore, a bifunctional reaction mechanism of acetic acid catalytic steam reforming was proposed by in-situ diffuse reflective infrared Fourier transform spectroscopy analysis coupled with density functional theory calculations.