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Development of Catalyst for Methanol Production

This research will be focusing on preliminary development studies on catalyst that can help to increase the selectivity and yield of methanol production. Over recent years, the research for methanol production via catalytic routes have extensively studied by the researchers. Thus, this project pa...

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Main Author: Abd Ghani, Nur Azeanni
Format: Final Year Project
Language:English
Published: IRC 2015
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TP Chemical technology
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spelling my-utp-utpedia.163012017-01-25T09:34:53Z http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/16301/ Development of Catalyst for Methanol Production Abd Ghani, Nur Azeanni TP Chemical technology This research will be focusing on preliminary development studies on catalyst that can help to increase the selectivity and yield of methanol production. Over recent years, the research for methanol production via catalytic routes have extensively studied by the researchers. Thus, this project paper covers the development of catalyst for methanol production by using aluminium oxide (Al2O3) at different type of promoters which are un-promoted, single promoter (Niobium) and double promoter (Niobium and Zirconium) and to synthesize the Cu/ZnO catalyst at different type of supports which are silicon carbide (SiC), Santa Barbara amorphous silica (SBA-15) and aluminium oxide (Al2O3). The characteristics of the catalyst are studied using SEM, EDX, TPR, and TGA. The characteristics of the catalyst depended on the type of support and promoters which influenced the catalytic performances. In order to investigate the effect of the mentioned catalysts, the hydrogenation of CO2 is performed in the micro-activity fixed bed reactors and stirred high-pressure slurry reactor at 523.15K, 2.25MPa and a H2/CO2 ration of 3:1. The results of the reactor performances were find out that the methanol selectivity of using Al2O3 as catalyst support incorporated with Niobium and Zirconium as promoters has the highest value which is 71.61% methanol selectivity. IRC 2015-09 Final Year Project NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/16301/1/Final%20Dissertation_Nur%20Azeanni%20binti%20Abd%20Ghani_CHE_15318.pdf Abd Ghani, Nur Azeanni (2015) Development of Catalyst for Methanol Production. IRC, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS. (Unpublished)
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Abd Ghani, Nur Azeanni
Development of Catalyst for Methanol Production
description This research will be focusing on preliminary development studies on catalyst that can help to increase the selectivity and yield of methanol production. Over recent years, the research for methanol production via catalytic routes have extensively studied by the researchers. Thus, this project paper covers the development of catalyst for methanol production by using aluminium oxide (Al2O3) at different type of promoters which are un-promoted, single promoter (Niobium) and double promoter (Niobium and Zirconium) and to synthesize the Cu/ZnO catalyst at different type of supports which are silicon carbide (SiC), Santa Barbara amorphous silica (SBA-15) and aluminium oxide (Al2O3). The characteristics of the catalyst are studied using SEM, EDX, TPR, and TGA. The characteristics of the catalyst depended on the type of support and promoters which influenced the catalytic performances. In order to investigate the effect of the mentioned catalysts, the hydrogenation of CO2 is performed in the micro-activity fixed bed reactors and stirred high-pressure slurry reactor at 523.15K, 2.25MPa and a H2/CO2 ration of 3:1. The results of the reactor performances were find out that the methanol selectivity of using Al2O3 as catalyst support incorporated with Niobium and Zirconium as promoters has the highest value which is 71.61% methanol selectivity.
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author Abd Ghani, Nur Azeanni
author_facet Abd Ghani, Nur Azeanni
author_sort Abd Ghani, Nur Azeanni
title Development of Catalyst for Methanol Production
title_short Development of Catalyst for Methanol Production
title_full Development of Catalyst for Methanol Production
title_fullStr Development of Catalyst for Methanol Production
title_full_unstemmed Development of Catalyst for Methanol Production
title_sort development of catalyst for methanol production
publisher IRC
publishDate 2015
url http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/16301/1/Final%20Dissertation_Nur%20Azeanni%20binti%20Abd%20Ghani_CHE_15318.pdf
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