Promotion effects of oxygen vacancies on activity of Na-doped CeO2 catalysts for reverse water gas shift reaction

CeO 2 -based catalysts have been widely used in the CO 2 hydrogenation process. The oxygen vacancies on CeO 2 resulted from Na ion incorporation play a vital role in CO 2 conversion activity, the effect of Na + ion-doped in CeO 2 during CO 2 hydrogenation was rarely studied. In this work, the LN-CeO 2 catalysts with different n NaOH :n Ce ratios were prepared with liquid nitrogen(Liquid Nitrogen-CeO 2 , LN-CeO 2 ), and the effect of the n NaOH :n Ce ratio on the microstructure of the LN-CeO 2 catalysts were evaluated. The best CO 2 hydrogenation performance was achieved by LN-CeO 2 -100 with a CO production rate of 3.90 mol/g cat· h at 800 °C (100% CO selectivity). The kinetic results indicated that the CO 2 hydrogenation performance difference among these LN-CeO 2 catalysts resulted from the CO 2 activation process. Oxygen vacancies could enhance CO 2 activation on the surface of LN-CeO 2 , and oxygen vacancies displayed a linear correlation relationship with the Na content doped in LN-CeO 2 . The highest concentration of oxygen vacancies resulted from Na ion incorporated and lower CO 2 reaction order was closely related to CO 2 hydrogenation performance of LN-CeO 2 -100. These results will give insight into the Na effect on the CO 2 hydrogenation mechanism over CeO 2 .