1. Performance of Zn-Al co-doped La2O3 catalysts in the oxidative coupling of methane
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Litao Jia, De-bao Li, Qiang Wang, Minggui Lin, Pengyu Niu, and Ying-tao Li
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inorganic chemicals ,Chemistry ,Inorganic chemistry ,Doping ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Oxygen ,Catalysis ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy ,Oxidative coupling of methane ,Selectivity ,Citric acid ,Dispersion (chemistry) ,human activities - Abstract
Zn-doped and Zn-Al co-doped La2O3 catalysts were prepared by citric acid sol-gel method and characterized by a series of in situ technologies, to investigate the structure-activity relationship of La2O3-based catalysts in the oxidative coupling of methane (OCM). The in situ XRD results reveal a thermal expansion of the La2O3 crystal along the c-axis at high temperature. The H2-TPR results show two types of oxygen species on the La2O3-based catalysts, viz., the strong-binding oxygen species and weak-binding oxygen species; in addition, the XPS results indicate that the strong-binding oxygen species is probably attributed to anion radical O−. The doping with Zn can significantly increase the number of oxygen vacancies in the Zn-doped La2O3 catalysts, which can promote the activation of oxygen and generate more strong-binding oxygen species; as a result, the Zn-doped La2O3 catalyst shows better performance in OCM in comparison with the unmodified La2O3 catalyst. Moreover, the co-doping with Al can promote the dispersion of Zn in La2O3 and further raise the number of strong-binding oxygen species in the Zn-Al co-doped La2O3 catalysts, which is beneficial to enhance the selectivity to C2+ hydrocarbons in the OCM reaction.
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- 2021