High-Yield Hydrogen Production
from Aqueous Phase
Reforming over Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Supported Catalysts
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Abstract
Pt and Pt–Co bimetallic catalysts supported on
single-walled
carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were synthesized by a wet reduction–decoration
method and tested for catalytic activity of aqueous phase reforming
of ethylene glycol. The Pt decorated on SWNT achieves a catalyst mass
time hydrogen yield of 890 micromole gcat<sup>–1</sup> min<sup>–1</sup>, which is higher than the reported results for Pt–alumina
catalyst. Experiments also show that this catalyst has better activity
than Pt supported on activated carbon with a similar surface area,
showing the advantage of SWNTs as a catalyst support. Factors affecting
the aqueous phase reforming activity, such as temperature, pressure,
WHSV, catalyst particle size, etc., were investigated. We have also
explored Pt–Co bimetallic catalysts by combining the structural
characterization results with the reactivity results and revealed
that bimetallic catalysts may promote the catalyst performance in
two different ways: either via the formation of Pt–Co alloy
phase or via the synergistic catalytic activities of individual Pt
and Co particles. The Pt–Co–SWNT catalyst achieved a
hydrogen production activity as high as 4.6 mmol gcat<sup>–1</sup> min<sup>–1</sup>