Towards full one-pass conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol and methanol-derived products
Towards full one-pass conversion of carbon dioxide to methanol and methanol-derived products
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jcat.2013.09.005
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发表时间:
2014-01-01
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7.3
通讯作者:
Urakawa, Atsushi
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作者:
Bansode, Atul;Urakawa, Atsushi
The rising concerns about global warming and imbalance in the carbon cycle urge rapid development of efficient CO2 conversion processes. We report an exceptionally productive process for the synthesis of methanol via continuous catalytic hydrogenation of CO2 under high-pressure conditions (up to 360 bar) over co-precipitated Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 catalysts. Outstanding one-pass CO2 conversion (>95%) and methanol selectivity (>98%) were achieved under an optimized range of reaction conditions. At a very high GHSV of 182,000 h(-1) over a commercial methanol synthesis catalyst, the process delivers 7.7 gmecai g h(-1), which is by far the highest yield value reported to date, at the expense of lowered CO2 conversion (65.8%) and methanol selectivity (77.3%). Using a mixed bed consisting of the Cu/ZnO/Al2O3 and H-ZSM-5 catalysts, one-step conversion of CO2 into dimethyl ether with remarkable selectivity (89%) was attained at the equivalent or higher CO2 conversion level. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the effluent stream of methanol, rich in Hy and water, from the methanol synthesis reactor can be directly fed to a reactor containing the H-ZSM-5 catalyst for selective production of alkane (85%) or alkene (42%), depending on the operating pressure of the secondary reactor. (C) 2013 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.