Effects of cerium doping position on physicochemical properties and catalytic performance in methanol total oxidation

The physicochemical properties of Pd and Pd-Pt catalysts which possess different Ce doping position were investigated by techniques of TEM, XRD, N2 adsorption-desorption, XPS and FT-IR. The catalytic performance for methanol total oxidation was examined to study the effects of Ce adding position.CeO2-Al2 O3-TiO2（CAT） catalysts that Ce is directly introduced into support show higher reactivity and CO2 selectivity than CeO2/Al2 O3-TiO2（Ce/AT） samples in which Ce is loaded by impregnation method.The characterization results reveal that the Ce doping position does not cause obvious otherness of basic crystalline phase and mesoporous structure of support. However, the Ce doping position affects the pore shapes of support and then influences the pore diameter. CAT catalysts possess more abundant adsorbed oxygen and more Ti3＋ can transform the more gaseous oxygen into the active oxygen species on the catalyst surface, which is beneficial to the reaction. The Al-O-Ti bridges in CAT facilitate the cooperation of Al and Ti species, which further speeds up the reaction rate.