TY - JOUR ID - 58588 TI - Methane oxy-steam reforming over a highly efficient Ni/Al2O3 nanocatalyst prepared by microwave-assisted impregnation method JO - Iranian Journal of Chemical Engineering(IJChE) JA - IJCHE LA - en SN - 1735-5397 AU - Hosseini, S. M. S. AU - Hashemipour rafsanjani, H. AU - Talebizadeh, A.R. AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran AD - Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan, Rafsanjan, Iran Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 14 IS - 4 SP - 3 EP - 16 KW - methane oxy-steam reforming KW - Microwave KW - impregnation method KW - Ni/Al2O3 DO - N2 - An alumina-supported nickel catalyst was prepared by impregnation of Ni2+ solution onto mesoporous alumina under microwave irradiation (denoted as M-Ni/Al2O3). For comparison, a catalyst with the same nickel content was prepared by conventional impregnation method (denoted as UM-Ni/Al2O3). Both M-Ni/Al2O3 and UM-Ni/Al2O3 catalysts were applied to the syngas (H2 + CO) production by methane oxy-steam reforming in order to investigate the effect of preparation method on the catalytic performance. The reaction experiments were performed in a fixed-bed continuous flow reactor under atmospheric pressure. M-Ni/Al2O3 catalyst exhibited higher methane conversion (XCH4: 0.94) than UM-Ni/Al2O3 (XCH4: 0.58) in the oxy-steam reforming reaction. In addition, the value of syngas yield in M-Ni/Al2O3 (3.21 mole per mole of methane) was almost twice of one for UM-Ni/Al2O3 catalyst (1.59 mole per mole of methane). Various operating conditions such as the influences of the O2/CH4 and H2O/CH4 feed ratios, temperature, and GHSV on the methane conversion and yield of products were investigated. According to the structural characterization (FTIR, XRD, N2 adsorption/desorption, H2-TPR and TEM), the excellent catalytic performance of M-Ni/Al2O3 catalyst was reasonably attributed to the nano size and uniform distributed nickel species (<6 nm) which interacted to the alumina support strongly. UR - https://www.ijche.com/article_58588.html L1 - https://www.ijche.com/article_58588_955298a3236a4d7882a3ee7ee3b747c6.pdf ER -