Kinetics of ammonia synthesis over Ru/Pr2O3
Kinetics of ammonia synthesis over Ru/Pr2O3
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DOI:
10.1016/j.jtice.2019.10.006
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发表时间:
2019-12-01
影响因子:
5.7
通讯作者:
Nagaoka, Katsutoshi
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作者:
Imamura, Kazuya;Miyahara, Shin-ichiro;Nagaoka, Katsutoshi
We investigated the kinetics of NH3 synthesis over a catalyst consisting of low-crystalline Ru nano-layers supported on Pr2O3. We determined the reaction orders with respect to N-2, H-2, and NH3 at various temperatures and pressures over Ru/Pr2O3, as well as Ru/CeO2 and Ru/MgO. The reaction orders with respect to N-2 were always almost unity for all the catalysts under all the reaction conditions, indicating that the rate-determining step was N=N bond cleavage. In contrast, the reaction orders with respect to H-2 differed among the catalysts and decreased with increasing pressure and increased with increasing temperature. Under all conditions, the reaction order with respect to H-2 was largest over Ru/Pr2O3 and smallest over Ru/MgO, indicating that hydrogen poisoning of the Ru surface was retarded to a greater extent over Ru/Pr2O3 than over Ru/MgO. In agreement with the trends of the H-2 reaction orders, the NH3 synthesis rates over Ru/Pr2O3 at 400 degrees C rose drastically (64 mmol h(-1) g(-1)) as the pressure was increased from 0.1 to 3.0 MPa. Furthermore, decreasing the feed gas H-2/N-2 ratio at 3.0 MPa effectively increased the NH3 synthesis rate over Ru/Pr2O3, which reached 45 mmol h(-1) g(-1) at 350 degrees C at a H-2/N-2 ratio of 1/0.5. (C) 2019 Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.