چكيده به لاتين
Global warming and declining fuel and energy resources around the world are two important phenomena that have affected human life. Carbon dioxide methanation is one of the best commercial and environmental processes . reaction between carbon dioxide and hydrogen has produced valuable material such as methane and has attracted much attention from researchers. Different catalysts are used in CO2 methanation such as platinum, ruthenium, rhodium, nickel, cobalt, etc. In this study, nickel based catalysts have been selected due to their high activity, good selectivity and Availability and reasonable prices. According to studies, alumina supported Ni based catalysts performed well due to the high surface area, pore structure, mechanical stability,basic sites for CO2 adsorbtion, availability and low cost. In this regard, a series of Cr2O3-Al2O3 supports with various Cr2O3/Al2O3 molar ratios were prepared by a new and very simple mechanical-chemical route. The catalyst supported on Cr2O3 exhibits the highest CO2 conversion (80.51%) at 350 0C, GHSV of 9000 ml/gcat.h and H2:CO2 molar ratio of 4:1. The obtained results revealed that increasing in nickel loading up to 20% enhanced the CO2 conversion that Ni(20%)/Cr2O3 catalyst has the highest catalytic activity in CO2 methanation and reached to 64.50% CO2 conversion at 350 0C , GHSV of 18000 ml/gcat.h and H2:CO2 molar ratio of 3:1. Also, To investigate the effect of promoters on catalyst activity, Ni(20%)/M-Cr2O3 samples containing 10% M ( Iron, cobalt, lanthanum and manganese oxides) were prepared. The 20% nickel catalyst supported on the combination of chromium oxide and manganese oxide showed the best catalytic activity, then the optimal amount of manganese oxide addition was determined. The Ni(20%)/Mn(15%)-Cr2O3 catalyst demonstrated the highest CO2 conversion (72.12%) at 350 0C, GHSV of 18000 ml/gcat.h and H2:CO2 molar ratio of 3:1. Eventually, the optimal operation conditions were specified by investigating the effect of H2:CO2 molar
ratio and gas hourly space velocity (GHSV) on the catalytic behavior of the denoted catalyst.
Keywords: nickel catalyst, methanation, composite oxide support, carbon dioxide, promoter, mechanical-chemical, manganese oxide