Al2O3-CeO2 supports containing 1-10 wt%Ce were prepared mechanochemically by milling aluminum and/or cerium nitrates with NH4HCO3.Heteropolymolybdate,（NH4）4NiMo6O（24）,was used as the precursor of the Ni and Mo to ...Al2O3-CeO2 supports containing 1-10 wt%Ce were prepared mechanochemically by milling aluminum and/or cerium nitrates with NH4HCO3.Heteropolymolybdate,（NH4）4NiMo6O（24）,was used as the precursor of the Ni and Mo to prepare NiMo6/Al2O3-CeO2 components in catalysts by impregnation method.The physicochemical properties of the catalysts were determined using chemical analysis,X-ray diffraction,temperature-programmed H2 reduction,temperature-programmed NH3 desorption,X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy（XPS）,and the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method.The catalyst acidity decreased with increasing Ce concentration in the support.XPS showed that the NiS/MoS ratio decreased two-fold for the Ce-modified alumina support.NiMo6/Al2O3,which had the highest acidity,showed the highest activity in hydrodesulfurization of 1-benzothiophene（normalized per weight of catalyst）.The concentration of surface MoOxSy species（which is equal to the concentration of Mo^（5＋）） gradually decreased to zero for catalysts with Ce concentrations 10 wt%.However,the activities of all the catalysts prepared mechanochemically from Al2O3 and Al2O3-CeO2supports significantly exceeded that of a reference NiMo6/Al2O3 catalyst prepared by impregnation method using the same precursor and with the same composition.展开更多
基金Czech Science Foundation(Project P106/11/0902) for financial support
文摘Al2O3-CeO2 supports containing 1-10 wt%Ce were prepared mechanochemically by milling aluminum and/or cerium nitrates with NH4HCO3.Heteropolymolybdate,（NH4）4NiMo6O（24）,was used as the precursor of the Ni and Mo to prepare NiMo6/Al2O3-CeO2 components in catalysts by impregnation method.The physicochemical properties of the catalysts were determined using chemical analysis,X-ray diffraction,temperature-programmed H2 reduction,temperature-programmed NH3 desorption,X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy（XPS）,and the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller method.The catalyst acidity decreased with increasing Ce concentration in the support.XPS showed that the NiS/MoS ratio decreased two-fold for the Ce-modified alumina support.NiMo6/Al2O3,which had the highest acidity,showed the highest activity in hydrodesulfurization of 1-benzothiophene（normalized per weight of catalyst）.The concentration of surface MoOxSy species（which is equal to the concentration of Mo^（5＋）） gradually decreased to zero for catalysts with Ce concentrations 10 wt%.However,the activities of all the catalysts prepared mechanochemically from Al2O3 and Al2O3-CeO2supports significantly exceeded that of a reference NiMo6/Al2O3 catalyst prepared by impregnation method using the same precursor and with the same composition.
