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Catalytic systems for enhanced carbon dioxide reforming of methane: a review

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Carbon dioxide and methane emissions are major greenhouse gases contributing to global warming, thus calling for rapid techniques of sequestration. For instance, dry reforming of methane transforms CO2 and CH4 into syngas, a mixture of H2 and CO, yet the reaction catalyst becomes inactivated by carbon formation and metal sintering. Here, we review catalytic systems used for dry reforming of methane. Improved catalysts of high catalytic performance and stability are obtained by selecting the active metal, supporting materials, promoters and preparation techniques. We found a strong correlation between the support morphology, physicochemical properties and catalytic performances. In particular, fibrous structures show optimal metal–support interaction, distribution, particle size, basicity, storage of oxygen space, surface area and porosity, resulting in high performance of anti-coking and anti-sintering.

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Abbreviations

CCUS:

Capture of carbon, use and storage

MCM-41:

Mobil Composition of Matter No. 41 mesoporous via a hierarchical structure

SBA-15:

Santa Barbara amorphous-type material mesoporous silica sieve based on uniform hexagonal pores

TEOS:

Tetraethyl orthosilicate

EISA:

Evaporation-induced self-assembly process

KCC-1:

Fibrous silica

Ni/KCC-1(IP):

Nickel on nitridated fibrous silica by one-pot hydrothermal technique

Ni/KCC-1(IM):

Nickel on nitridated fibrous silica by wet impregnation method

HZSM-5:

Aluminosilicate zeolite

FmZSM-5:

Fibrous silica mesoporous ZSM-5

DFSBA-15:

Dendritic fibrous SBA-15

HSi@ZSM-5:

Mesostructured fibrous silica@ZSM-5

RWGS:

Reverse water–gas shift reaction

FESEM:

Field emission scanning electron microscope

FTIR:

Fourier transform infrared

TPD-CO2 :

Temperature-programmed desorption of carbon dioxide

TPD-NH3 :

Temperature-programmed desorption of ammonia

CTAB:

Cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide

EFAl:

Extra-framework aluminum species in zeolite

CARiACT Q:

Principally formulated silica with average pores 3 and 50 nm Q-50 and Q-3

NiCe/NFA:

Nickel-supported cerium nanofibers

NiCe/NGA:

Nickel-supported cerium nanograins

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This work was supported by the financial support of Universiti Teknologi Malaysia through Transdisciplinary Research Grant (Grant Nos. 06G52 and 06G53).

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Owgi, A.H.K., Jalil, A.A., Hussain, I. et al. Catalytic systems for enhanced carbon dioxide reforming of methane: a review. Environ Chem Lett 19, 2157–2183 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10311-020-01164-w

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