Effect of atomic layer deposited zinc promoter on the activity of copper-on-zirconia catalysts in the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol
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2023-02
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Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, Volume 321
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The development of active catalysts for carbon dioxide (CO2) hydrogenation to methanol is intimately related to the creation of effective metal-oxide interfaces. In this work, we investigated how the order of addition of copper and zinc on zirconia influences the catalytic properties, the catalytic activity and selectivity toward methanol. Regarding the carbon dioxide conversion and methanol production, the catalysts on which the promoter (zinc) was atomically deposited after copper impregnation (i.e., ZnO/Cu/ZrO2 and ZnO/Cu/ZnO/ZrO2) were superior catalysts compared to the reverse copper-after-zinc catalyst (Cu/ZnO/ZrO2). Temperature-programmed experiments and in situ diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier transform-spectroscopy (DRIFTS) experiments allowed us to elucidate the benefits of the zinc-after-copper pair to store CO2 as carbonate species and further convert them into formate species, key intermediates in the formation of methanol. This research provides insights into the potential of atomic layer deposition in the development of tailored heterogeneous catalysts for efficient CO2 valorization to methanol.Description
Funding Information: The work at Aalto University has been financially supported by the Academy of Finland (COOLCAT consortium, decision no. 329977 and 329978 ; ALDI consortium, decision no. 331082 ). This work made use of Aalto University Bioeconomy, OtaNano and RawMatters infrastructure. Hannu Revitzer (Aalto University) is thanked for the ICP-OES analysis, Aalto workshop people (especially Seppo Jääskeläinen) for working on the reactor modifications. The DFT calculations were made possible by computational resources provided by the CSC — IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland ( https://www.csc.fi/en/ ) and computer capacity from the Finnish Grid and Cloud Infrastructure (urn:nbn:fi:research-infras-2016072533). The University of Helsinki acknowledges support from Academy of Finland (project 295696 ) as well as ESRF for beamtime and Blanka Detlefs and Christoph Sahle for expert support. Preliminary XANES measurements were performed using the Helsinki Center for X-ray Spectroscopy Hel-XAS instrument under theproposal number 2021–0011.
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Atomic layer deposition, Carbon dioxide, Copper, Hydrogenation, Methanol, Zinc oxide
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Arandia, A, Yim, J, Warraich, H, Leppäkangas, E, Bes, R, Lempelto, A, Gell, L, Jiang, H, Meinander, K, Viinikainen, T, Huotari, S, Honkala, K & Puurunen, R L 2023, ' Effect of atomic layer deposited zinc promoter on the activity of copper-on-zirconia catalysts in the hydrogenation of carbon dioxide to methanol ', Applied Catalysis B: Environmental, vol. 321, 122046 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apcatb.2022.122046