Dynamic trap of Ni at elevated temperature for yielding high-efficiency methane dry reforming catalyst

Abstract

Highly dispersed and stable metal catalysts with small nanoparticles have received extensive attention in elevated-temperature thermocatalytic process. However, the available strategies to stabilize metal sites, by constructing defective structures on catalyst supports and developing controllable preparation steps at room temperature, show limited effect, because these active metal sites can be mobile and sintering at elevated temperature. Herein, dealuminated Beta zeolite with abundant surface defects of silanol nests is applied as support, then dynamic trap strategy and subsequent reduction process at elevated temperature is devoted to transfer Ni-based precursors into the silanol nests, thus obtaining small nanoparticles Ni catalysts that are suitable for high-temperature methane dry reforming (DRM). Some in-situ characterization processes and the ingenious designed experiments are performed to identify the dynamic trapping process. The rational fabricated catalysts exhibit high catalytic reactivity for DRM reaction in long-term operation.