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Renewable methanol from CO2 over Cu/Zn/Zr/Si oxide catalysts promoted with Mg, Ce, or La

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A series of multicomponent oxide catalysts (CuO/ZnO/MemOn/ZrO2/SiO2, with Me = Mg, Ce, or La) was synthesized through a one-pot soft-template approach and used for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol. In the case of the La-containing catalysts, additional samples were prepared with CuO contents in the range 40–60 wt%. The influence of the catalyst composition on the physicochemical properties as well as the effect on the catalytic performance were investigated. The fresh catalysts were characterized in terms of composition, structure, textural properties, dispersion of the oxidic phases, and reducibility. On the reduced samples, structural and acid–base properties were also investigated, as well as specific metal surface area and dispersion of Cu0. After in situ H2-treatment at 250 °C, the catalysts activity was tested in a bench scale plant at 250 °C and 3.0 MPa, using a gas hourly space velocity of 24,000 Ncm3 h−1 gcat−1 and a H2/CO2 molar ratio equal to 3. It was found that the production of methanol is particularly favored by the introduction of La2O3, the highest value of methanol space–time yield (413 \({\text{mg}}_{{{\text{CH}}_{3} {\text{OH}}}}\ {\text{h}}^{{ - {1}}} \;{\text{g}}_{{{\text{cat}}}}^{{ - {1}}}\)) being obtained on the CuO/ZnO/La2O3/ZrO2/SiO2 catalyst containing 50 wt% of copper oxide.

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Thanks are due to Andrea Ardu and to the ‘Centro Servizi di Ateneo per la Ricerca (CeSAR)’ for the use of the TEM/EDX measurements performed with JEOL JEM 1400-PLUS. The catalytic tests have been performed by SOTACARBO within the Advanced Sustainable technologieS for Energy Transition, ASSET Project (CUP D43C22002400002), funded by the Regional Government of Sardinia.

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    Luciano Atzori, Maria Giorgia Cutrufello & Elisabetta Rombi

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    Sarah Lai, Francesca Ferrara, Alberto Pettinau & Mauro Mureddu

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    Maria Giorgia Cutrufello & Elisabetta Rombi

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Conceptualization: [FF and ER]; Data curation: [LA, SL, MGC, and MM]; Formal analysis: [LA, SL, FF, MM, and ER]; Funding acquisition: [AP]; Investigation: [LA, SL, MGC, MM, and ER]; Methodology: [LA, MM, and ER]; Project administration: [FF and ER]; Resources: [MGC, FF, AP, and ER]; Supervision: [FF, AP, and ER]; Validation: [LA, SL, MGC, FF, MM, and ER]; Visualization: [LA, SL, MGC, MM, and ER]; Writing—original draft: [LA, SL, MGC, MM, and ER]; Writing—review and editing: [LA, SL, MGC, MM, and ER].

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Atzori, L., Lai, S., Cutrufello, M.G. et al. Renewable methanol from CO2 over Cu/Zn/Zr/Si oxide catalysts promoted with Mg, Ce, or La. J Porous Mater 31, 281–294 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10934-023-01511-6

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