Optimized Ni-based catalysts for methane reforming with O2-containing CO2

Reduction of CO 2 in presence of oxidative impurity ( e.g. , O 2 ) is more promising than utilization of pure CO 2 due to skyrocketing cost for purification of captured CO 2 from air or industrial exhaust gas. In this work, Ni-based catalysts are modified by CeO 2 and ZrO 2 to suppress negative effect of O 2 on reforming of CO 2 with methane, which show high CH 4 conversion (97 %) and CO 2 conversion (95 %) at 750 °C and can maintain high CO 2 conversion even with high O 2 content. The physicochemical characterizations on fresh and spent catalysts show that the interaction among Ni, CeO 2 and ZrO 2 results in well dispersion of smaller Ni particles, even after long-term testing. In situ DRIFTS results show that Ni/CeO 2 -ZrO 2 -SiO 2 catalyst shows advantage to activate CH 4 to generate active CH 3 *, promoting the formation of CO, and the CeO 2 -ZrO 2 solid solution improves the CO 2 adsorption, thereby reducing the competitive effect of CO 2 and O 2 .