Qiang Sun, Guanghui Wang, Wencui Li, Xiangqian Zhang, Anhui Lu
{"title":"Fabrication of functional hollow carbon spheres with large hollow interior as active colloidal catalysts","authors":"Qiang Sun, Guanghui Wang, Wencui Li, Xiangqian Zhang, Anhui Lu","doi":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60361-7","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60361-7","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study, we have established a facile method to synthesize functional hollow carbon spheres with large hollow interior, which can act as active colloidal catalysts. The method includes the following steps: first, hollow polymer spheres with large hollow interior were prepared using sodium oleate as the hollow core generator, and 2,4-dihydroxybenzoic acid and hexamethylene tetramine (HMT) as the polymer precursors under hydrothermal conditions; Fe<sup>3+</sup> or Ag<sup>+</sup> cations were then introduced into the as-prepared hollow polymer spheres through the carboxyl groups; finally, the hollow polymer spheres can be pseudomorphically converted to hollow carbon spheres during pyrolysis process, meanwhile iron or silver nanoparticles can also be formed in the carbon shell simultaneously. The structures of the obtained functional hollow carbon spheres were characterized by TEM, XRD, and TG. As an example, Ag-doped hollow carbon spheres were used as colloid catalysts which showed high catalytic activity in 4-nitrophenol reduction reaction.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56116,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 251-256"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60361-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56791928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Selective catalytic reduction of NO by C2H2 over Ce-Al2O3 catalyst with rate-determining step of NO oxidation","authors":"Suhua Yan, Xinping Wang, Wenchen Wang, Zequn Liu, Jiahao Niu","doi":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60373-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60373-3","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Ce-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> catalysts prepared by co-precipitation are investigated both in NO oxidation by O<sub>2</sub> and in selective catalytic reduction of NO by C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub> (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>-SCR). It is found that C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>-SCR is initiated and controlled by NO oxidation to NO<sub>2</sub> over Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>. Ce loading on Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> is almost inactive for NO oxidation below 350°C, since NO<sub>2</sub> strongly adsorbs on cerium oxide, leading to the active sites being blocked, which was characterized by temperature-programmed desorption of NO and NO<sub>2</sub> and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy after NO+O<sub>2</sub> coadsorption over the samples. However, in the case of C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>-SCR, Ce loading on Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> significantly improves the reaction by accelerating the NO oxidation step in the temperature range of 250–450°C, since the nitrate species produced by NO<sub>2</sub> adsorption is an active intermediate required by C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>-SCR.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56116,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 332-338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60373-3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56792604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancement of CO2 adsorption on nanoporous chromium terephthalate (MIL-101) by amine modification","authors":"Mansoor Anbia, Vahid Hoseini","doi":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60374-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60374-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2</sub>) adsorption on a standard metal-organic framework MIL-101 and a pentaethylenehexamine modified MIL-101 (PEHA-MIL-101) are investigated and compared in this study. The adsorbent samples were characterized by XRD, FT-IR and nitrogen adsorption-desorption isotherms analysis. CO<sub>2</sub> adsorption capacity was measured by a volumetric method. MIL-101 and PEHA-MIL-101 exhibited CO<sub>2</sub> adsorption capacities of 0.85 and 1.3 mmolCo<sub>2</sub>/g<sub>adsorbent</sub> at 10 bar and 298 K, respectively. It is observed that CO<sub>2</sub> adsorption capacity was fairly improved about 50% after amine modification.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56116,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 339-343"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60374-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56792640","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lei Sang, Sheng-Li Chen, Guimei Yuan, Zheng Zhou, Rui Li, Aicheng Chen, Min Zheng, Ju You
{"title":"Preparation of mesoporous alumina with large pore size and their supported rhenium oxide catalysts in metathesis of 1-butene and 2-butene to propene","authors":"Lei Sang, Sheng-Li Chen, Guimei Yuan, Zheng Zhou, Rui Li, Aicheng Chen, Min Zheng, Ju You","doi":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60376-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60376-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Mesoporous γ-aluminas with large pore size (up to 19 nm, denoted as MA19) are prepared from dispersed pseudo-boehmite using pluronic P123 as template. It is found that these mesoporous alumina supported rhenium oxide catalysts were more active and have far longer working life-span in gas-phase metathesis of 1-butene and 2-butene to propene than rhenium oxide on conventional alumina with small pore size (5 nm). At 60°C and atmospheric pressure with WHSV= 1 h<sup>−1</sup>, the similar stable conversions of butene (ca. 55%) for all the 13 wt% Re<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>/alumina catalysts were obtained near the chemical equilibrium, and the stable working life-spans of Re<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>/MA19 were far longer than that of Re<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>/Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>, being about 70 h and 20 h, respectively.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56116,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 352-359"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60376-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56793280","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preface for the Special Column of Carbon Materials for Energy Conversion","authors":"Xiulian Pan (Guest Editor)","doi":"10.1016/S1003-9953(12)60504-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1003-9953(12)60504-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":56116,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry","volume":"21 3","pages":"Page i"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1003-9953(12)60504-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56796070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kake Zhu , Junming Sun , He Zhang , Jun Liu , Yong Wang
{"title":"Carbon as a hard template for nano material catalysts","authors":"Kake Zhu , Junming Sun , He Zhang , Jun Liu , Yong Wang","doi":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60357-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60357-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As one of the naturally abundant elements, carbon can present in different molecular structures (allotropes) and thus lead to various physical/chemical properties of carbon-based materials which have found wide applications in a variety of fields including electrochemistry, optical, adsorption and catalysis, etc. On the other hand, its different allotropes also endow carbon-based materials with various morphostructures, which have been recently explored to prepare oxides and zeolites/zeotypes with tailored structures. In this review, we mainly summarize the recent advances in using carbon materials as hard templates to synthesize structural materials. Specifically, we focus on the development in the synthetic strategies, such as endotemplating, exotemplating approaches and using carbon materials as chemical reagents for the synthesis of metal carbides or nitrides, with an emphasis laid on the control of morphostructure. Meanwhile, the applications of the obtained materials will be highlighted, especially, in the field of heterogeneous catalysis where enhanced performances have been achieved with the materials derived from carbon-templated methods.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56116,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 215-232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60357-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56792078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhanced catalytic performance for direct synthesis of dimethyl ether from syngas over a La2O3 modified Cu-ZrO2/γ-Al2O3 hybrid catalyst","authors":"Zhuo Li , Jianqing Li , Cheng Yang , Jinhu Wu","doi":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60377-0","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60377-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>A series of hybrid catalysts were made by physically mixing Cu-ZrO<sub>2</sub> and γ-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>, for former it was modified with different loadings of La<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> prepared by co-precipitation method. The catalysts were characterized by BET, XRD, N<sub>2</sub>O-adsorption, EXAFS, H<sub>2</sub>-TPR, NH<sub>3</sub>-TPD techniques and evaluated in the synthesis of dimethyl ether from syngas. The results show that La<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> promoted catalysts displayed a significantly better catalytic performance compared with Cu-ZrO<sub>2</sub>/γ-Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> catalyst in CO conversion and DME selectivity, and the optimum catalytic activity was obtained when the content of La<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> was 12 wt%. The characterizations reveal that high copper dispersion, facile reducibility of copper particles and appropriate amount of acidic sites are responsible for the superior catalytic performance.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56116,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 360-365"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60377-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56792923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ziwu Liu , Feng Peng , Hongjuan Wang , Hao Yu , Wenxu Zheng , Xianyong Wei
{"title":"Preparation of phosphorus-doped carbon nanospheres and their electrocatalytic performance for O2 reduction","authors":"Ziwu Liu , Feng Peng , Hongjuan Wang , Hao Yu , Wenxu Zheng , Xianyong Wei","doi":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60362-9","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60362-9","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Phosphorus-doped carbon nanospheres without any metal residues were synthesized and characterized. The results revealed that the doping phosphorus atoms could significantly improve the electrocatalytic activity of graphitic carbon for the oxygen-reduction reaction (ORR) both in acidic and alkaline media, and the materials exhibited high electrocatalytic activity, long-term stability, and excellent tolerance to crossover effects especially in alkaline media. Quantum mechanics calculations with the density functional theory demonstrated that the changes in charge density and energetic characteristics of frontier orbitals for the P-doped graphene sheet could facilitate the ORR.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56116,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry","volume":"21 3","pages":"Pages 257-264"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60362-9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56792119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Mohammad-Taheri , A. Zarringhalam Moghaddam , K. Nazari , N. Gholipour Zanjani
{"title":"Methane hydrate stability in the presence of water-soluble hydroxyalkyl cellulose","authors":"M. Mohammad-Taheri , A. Zarringhalam Moghaddam , K. Nazari , N. Gholipour Zanjani","doi":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60343-5","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60343-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The effect of low-dosage water-soluble hydroxyethyl cellulose (approximate <em>M</em><sub>W</sub>∼90,000 and 250,000) as a member of hydroxyalkyl cellulosic polymer group on methane hydrate stability was investigated by monitoring hydrate dissociation at pressures greater than atmospheric pressure in a closed vessel. In particular, the influence of molecular weight and mass concentration of hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) was studied with respect to hydrate formation and dissociation. Methane hydrate formation was performed at 2 °C and at a pressure greater than 100 bar. Afterwards, hydrate dissociation was initiated by step heating from −10 °C at a mild pressure of 13 bar to −3 °C, 0 °C and 2 °C. With respect to the results obtained for methane hydrate formation/dissociation and the amount of gas uptake, we concluded that HEC 90,000 at 5000 ppm is suitable for long-term gas storage and transportation under a mild pressure of 13 bar and at temperatures below the freezing point.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56116,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry","volume":"21 2","pages":"Pages 119-125"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60343-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56791213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lei Sang, Sheng-Li Chen, Guimei Yuan, Min Zheng, Ju You, Aicheng Chen, Rui Li, Lanjing Chen
{"title":"Metathesis of 1-butene and 2-butene to propene over Re2O7 supported on macro-mesoporous γ-alumina prepared via a dual template method","authors":"Lei Sang, Sheng-Li Chen, Guimei Yuan, Min Zheng, Ju You, Aicheng Chen, Rui Li, Lanjing Chen","doi":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60340-X","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60340-X","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Macro-mesoporous γ-alumina support (MMA) was prepared by a sol-gel route in aqueous medium using pseudo-boehmite as aluminum source and polystyrene microspheres and Pluronic P123 as hard and soft dual templates, respectively. MMA had a BET specific surface area of about 259 m<sup>2</sup>·g<sup>−1</sup>, total pore volume of about 1.61 cm<sup>3</sup>·g<sup>−1</sup>, macropore diameter of about 102 nm, and mesopore diameter of about 14 nm. Re<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>/MMA and conventional Re<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>/Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> were prepared by a incipient-wetness impregnation method, and their catalytic performances in the metathesis of 1-butene and 2-butene were tested in a fixed-bed tubular reactor. The result showed that Re<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>/MMA possessed higher activity and far longer working life-span than conventional Re<sub>2</sub>O<sub>7</sub>/Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":56116,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Natural Gas Chemistry","volume":"21 2","pages":"Pages 105-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1016/S1003-9953(11)60340-X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56790553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}