OA06 Determination of Effect of Support for the Water-Gas Shift Reaction over Supported Au and Pt Nanoparticles

Monday, June 6, 2011: 11:20 AM
Cabot Ballroom (Detroit Marriott Hotel at the Renaissance Center )
Mayank Shekhar1, W. Damion Williams1, Wen-Sheng Lee1, Jun Wang1, Joshua L. Ratts1, Ajay M. Joshi1, Luis Bollmann1, Seung Min Kim2, Eric Stach2, Jeffrey T. Miller3, W. Nicholas Delgass1 and Fabio H. Ribeiro1, (1)Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, (2)Materials Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, (3)Chemical Science and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL
The WGS rate per total mole of Au and H2O order (in parenthesis) varies as Au/Al2O3(~0.6) < Au/ZrO2 ~ Au/CeO2(~0.3) < Au/TiO2(~-0.3) when compared at the same average particle size.  A similar effect is observed for supported Pt catalysts. Thus, the support plays a direct role in activating H2O.

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