Catalytic combustion of methane over palladium supported on alumina and silica in presence of hydrogen sulfide

doi:10.1016/0926-860X(93)80028-O

Applied Catalysis A: General

Volume 98, Issue 2, 20 May 1993, Pages 125-138

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Abstract

The catalytic combustion of methane is performed over palladium supported on alumina and silica in presence or not of hydrogen sulfide. In the case of alumina, a treatment at 873 K under the sulfur-free mixture leads to an increase in the catalytic activity. The activation is instantaneous in the case of silica. The presence of sulfur strongly deactivates both solids and the extent of deactivation is independent on the support. However, the alumina support lowers the rate of deactivation because of the trapping of sulfate species. In the case of the silica support infrared spectroscopy shows that the poisoning species would be a sulfate group bonded to the palladium surface atoms; in addition, this technique allows to determine the variations of the amount of sulfur deposited after poisoning and after thermal treatment. The extent of regeneration under nitrogen and hydrogen is correlated with the stability of the poisoning species.

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