The interactions of oxygen with pre-reduced silver catalysts as well as theircatalytic properties for CO selective oxidation in H_2 after oxygen pre-treatment are studied inthis paper. It is found that the pretreatmen...The interactions of oxygen with pre-reduced silver catalysts as well as theircatalytic properties for CO selective oxidation in H_2 after oxygen pre-treatment are studied inthis paper. It is found that the pretreatment exerts a strong influence on the activity andselectivity of the silver catalyst. A drop in activity and selectivity is observed after treating apre-reduced catalyst with oxygen at low temperatures, whereas a converse result is obtained after anoxidizing treatment at high temperatures (T ≥ 350℃). O_2-TPD results show that surface oxygenspecies adsorbs on silver surface after the oxygen treatment at low temperatures. However,penetration of oxygen into the silver is enhanced by a high temperature treatment, meanwhile thesurface oxygen species disappear. No other silver species except metallic silver are observed on allthe catalysts by XRD, and the size of silver particle is not changed after the treatment withoxygen at low temperatures. The surface oxygen species formed by oxygen treatment can also beremoved by hydrogen reduction. The strongly-adsorbed surface oxygen species prohibit the adsorptionand diffusion of oxygen species in reaction gas on the surface of silver catalyst, causing thedecrease in CO oxidation activity, in other words, it is important to obtain a clean silver surfacefor increasing the catalyst activity in CO removal from H_2-rich feed gas. The differences inactivity and selectivity due to the oxygen pretreatment at different temperatures are discussed interms of the changes in the surface/subsurface oxygen species of the silver particles.展开更多
文摘The interactions of oxygen with pre-reduced silver catalysts as well as theircatalytic properties for CO selective oxidation in H_2 after oxygen pre-treatment are studied inthis paper. It is found that the pretreatment exerts a strong influence on the activity andselectivity of the silver catalyst. A drop in activity and selectivity is observed after treating apre-reduced catalyst with oxygen at low temperatures, whereas a converse result is obtained after anoxidizing treatment at high temperatures (T ≥ 350℃). O_2-TPD results show that surface oxygenspecies adsorbs on silver surface after the oxygen treatment at low temperatures. However,penetration of oxygen into the silver is enhanced by a high temperature treatment, meanwhile thesurface oxygen species disappear. No other silver species except metallic silver are observed on allthe catalysts by XRD, and the size of silver particle is not changed after the treatment withoxygen at low temperatures. The surface oxygen species formed by oxygen treatment can also beremoved by hydrogen reduction. The strongly-adsorbed surface oxygen species prohibit the adsorptionand diffusion of oxygen species in reaction gas on the surface of silver catalyst, causing thedecrease in CO oxidation activity, in other words, it is important to obtain a clean silver surfacefor increasing the catalyst activity in CO removal from H_2-rich feed gas. The differences inactivity and selectivity due to the oxygen pretreatment at different temperatures are discussed interms of the changes in the surface/subsurface oxygen species of the silver particles.
