Catalytic decomposition of formic acid in a fixed bed reactor – an experimental and modelling study. / Winkler, Tom; Baccot, Fabien; Eränen, Kari et al.
In: Catalysis Today, Vol. 387, 01.03.2022, p. 128-139.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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T1 - Catalytic decomposition of formic acid in a fixed bed reactor – an experimental and modelling study
AU - Winkler, Tom
AU - Baccot, Fabien
AU - Eränen, Kari
AU - Wärnå, Johan
AU - Hilpmann, Gerd
AU - Lange, Rüdiger
AU - Peurla, Markus
AU - Simakova, Irina
AU - Grénman, Henrik
AU - Murzin, Dmitry Yu
AU - Salmi, Tapio
N1 - Catalytic decomposition of formic acid in a fixed bed reactor – an experimental and modelling study / T. Winkler, F. Baccot, K. Eränen [et al.] // Catalysis Today. – 2022. – Vol. 387. – P. 128-139. – DOI 10.1016/j.cattod.2021.10.022 This research work is part of the activities financed by Academy of Finland, through the Academy Professor grant 319002 (T. Salmi). Economic support from the Erasmus+ Programme is gratefully acknowledged (T. Winkler, F. Baccot).
PY - 2022/3/1
Y1 - 2022/3/1
N2 - Formic acid is one of the key components in green chemistry being involved in energy storage, production of chemical intermediates and fuel components. Therefore the knowledge of its stability is of crucial importance and a systematic study of its decomposition is needed. The kinetics of formic acid decomposition to hydrogen and carbon dioxide was investigated in a laboratory-scale fixed bed reactor at 150–225 °C and atmospheric pressure. Palladium nanoparticles deposited on porous active carbon Sibunit were used as the heterogeneous catalyst. The catalyst was characterized by nitrogen physisorption and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The average palladium nanoparticle size was 5–6 nm. The impacts of mass transfer resistance and formic acid dimerization were negligible under the reaction conditions. Prolonged experiments revealed that the catalyst had a good stability. Hydrogen and carbon dioxide were the absolutely dominant reaction products, whereas the amounts of carbon monoxide and water were negligible. The experimental data were described with three kinetic models: first order kinetics, two-step adsorption-reaction model and multistep adsorption-decomposition model of formic acid. The multistep model gave the best description of the data.
AB - Formic acid is one of the key components in green chemistry being involved in energy storage, production of chemical intermediates and fuel components. Therefore the knowledge of its stability is of crucial importance and a systematic study of its decomposition is needed. The kinetics of formic acid decomposition to hydrogen and carbon dioxide was investigated in a laboratory-scale fixed bed reactor at 150–225 °C and atmospheric pressure. Palladium nanoparticles deposited on porous active carbon Sibunit were used as the heterogeneous catalyst. The catalyst was characterized by nitrogen physisorption and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy. The average palladium nanoparticle size was 5–6 nm. The impacts of mass transfer resistance and formic acid dimerization were negligible under the reaction conditions. Prolonged experiments revealed that the catalyst had a good stability. Hydrogen and carbon dioxide were the absolutely dominant reaction products, whereas the amounts of carbon monoxide and water were negligible. The experimental data were described with three kinetic models: first order kinetics, two-step adsorption-reaction model and multistep adsorption-decomposition model of formic acid. The multistep model gave the best description of the data.
KW - Decomposition
KW - Dimerization
KW - Formic acid
KW - Kinetics
KW - Mass transfer
KW - Modelling
UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/cc279c57-0af2-3c64-a450-d15c2a63d519/
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092058612100479X?via%3Dihub
U2 - 10.1016/j.cattod.2021.10.022
DO - 10.1016/j.cattod.2021.10.022
M3 - Article
VL - 387
SP - 128
EP - 139
JO - Catalysis Today
JF - Catalysis Today
SN - 0920-5861
ER -
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