OA18 Highly Reactive and Robust Ni@SiO2 Core-Shell Catalysts for Catalytic Partial Oxidation of Methane

Tuesday, June 7, 2011: 10:20 AM
Cabot Ballroom (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Lu Whaley, Chemical Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA and Goetz Veser, US DOE-National Energy Technology Laboratory, Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
We are presenting a new, high-temperature stable catalyst for methane partial oxidation via encapsulation of sub-nm Ni clusters into porous silica shells. The resulting catalysts are exceptionally robust against sintering and coking. Our results also highlight that thinner shell (<10nm) is required in order to avoid mass transfer limitations.

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