P-W-BRC-96 Rare Earth/Transition Metal Oxides for Syngas Cleanup

Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Ballroom C (Galt House Hotel)
Rui Li1, Matthew Krcha2, Michael Janik2, Amitava Roy1 and Kerry Dooley1, (1)Louisiana State University, USA, (2)Pennsylvania State University, USA.
Development of novel materials with the ability to reform/crack tars is necessary to make gasification an economically feasible technology.  Rare earth oxides (REOs, e.g., Ce/LaOx) mixed with transition metals (e.g., Mn, Fe, Ni) were studied for tar removal in the presence of S.

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